The Intel Atom is an entry level processor, especially designed for the ultra-portable market such as netbooks. As it is considered a light weight processor, it performs well for basic tasks such as web Surfing, chatting, social networking. It has recently started to enter the smartphone market. It's energy saving feature and low consumption make it ideal for periods of prolonged use which is not always available in other Intel processors.
Right now, there are many new processors. Many of them are the 2nd generation. Here are the list of 2nd generation processors from slowest to fastest Intel Centrino Intel Atom Intel Xeon Intel Pentium Intel Core Intel Core i3 Intel Core i5 Intel Core i5 Business edition Intel Core i7 Intel Core i7 ExTreme Edition
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Apple uses a range of processors depending upon their needs these include Intel Core 2 Duo, quad-core Intel Core i5, quad-core Intel Core i7, Quad-Core Intel Xeon 3500,, Quad-Core Intel Xeon 5500 "Nehalem" processors.
Intel Corporations manufactures their own products. They outsource to other countries, but the factories are owned by Intel. There is very little information on the manufacturing process of Intel.
Intel is the world's largest semiconductor company. Intel is famous for their processors for e.g. notebooks, desktops and servers.
The question you're asking, unfortunately, is not worded correctly. An Intel processor is a family of processor, where a quad-core processor is a type of processor. The Intel family includes many types of quad-core processors. However, to try and disambiguate what you're asking, an Intel core processor will be good, no matter what type it is. An Intel quad-core processor - for example, the Intel i7 - will perform fantastically well. The other main type of processor manufacturer - AMD - also have quad-core processors. However, a lot of it is down to opinion and machine build as to whether Intel is better than AMD, but personally, I believe Intel will out-perform and out-last an AMD processor.
It depends on what kind of motherboard you're talking about. Generally speaking there are AMD based motherboards which will be used with AMD processors, and there are Intel motherboards that are to be used with Intel processors. For example, Asus is a motherboard manufacturer which offers both AMD as well as Intel motherboards. All other motherboard manufacturers usually offer both Intel & AMD.
The difference is that Core Duo processors have to "engines" instead of one. With other words, Core Duo means 2 Intel processors in the same time working!
Intel CPU processors have a very stable price, they don't differ a lot from the CPU processors of AMD but AMD has more discount offers on it's CPU processors which in some occassions give them a better cost to performance ratio. In other words, buying an AMD processor with a good discount might just beat the Intel CPU processor cost to performance ratio.
Clock speed is only a useful comparison of speed when two processors share the same architecture. AMD and Intel processors have different internal architectures. At various points in time, one manufacturer had a more efficient architecture than the other, thus providing better performance at a lower clock speed. As of Q2 of 2009, Intel currently offers more efficient processors.
Currently the answer is no, but historically Intel has been the leader in advancing processor technology. For quite some time there was no comptetition for chips with more than two cores, though recently AMD has released processors with three and four cores each, and thus catching up.
Intel desktop computers aren't any more expensive than computers with rival processors, such as AMD.
Yes, most software wil work well with processors other than Intel's. The advantage in one brand compared to another or in one chip compared to another isn't so much the way specific pieces of software work well or don't work well with it but instead how the entire experience with all software is better or worse, faster or slower.
Well, Intel is the better brand, but AMD is a fairly good. If your looking for a gaming laptop and have some money to spend, Look into the Intel Core i3,i5, and i7, these are the fastest Intel processors. On the other hand, the AMD Phenom 2 quad Black edition is the fastest AMD processor and is around as fast as an Intel Core 2 Duo. Hope this helps.