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Intel has unveiled, what it terms as low-cost, high-volume chips, named Atom. Intel’s chips have always been competing on performance, and, in a more notorious past, on frequency. So, AMD may have won the 1-GHz race, but Intel slogged hard enough to stay ahead in all the later products. Churning out chips, each one faster, [...]

This is the second part of a two part Interview with Leighton Phillips, Intel World Ahead Program Manager for Asia Pacific. The first part focussed on questions related to Intel’s WorldAhead program. As promised, this second part deals with some of the controversial questions including Intel’s abrupt exit from the One Laptop Per [...]