Apple will introduce mobile Internet devices later this year based on the newly christened Intel Atom processors.
This follows Intel's announcement of its new generation of small processors designed specifically for such devices, the Atom family (They're creepy and they're cooky). This is Intel's new name for its Silverthorne and Diamondville processors. Intel's Menlow ultramobile platform has been renamed the Centrino Atom.
Intel has created the Atom processor family for deployment in low-cost, Internet-ready mobile computing devices. They are also anticipated to appear in new 'thin-client" computers, designed
