Intel’s Bay Trail Impresses, You Won’t Have Atom To Kick Around Anymore

Let’s be candid.  Over the years, Intel’s Atom architecture, where it took residence in netbooks, convertibles, or tablets didn’t exactly light up performance metrics or inspire jaw-dropping mobile experiences.  Sure, Intel figured out a way to mitigate power consumption but Atom has taken a fair bit of flack for its lack-luster performance, especially in multimedia and graphics.  More recently, Intel has been making iterative enhancements to Atom that have realized measurable gains, though only affording performance parity with competitive midrange ARM-based devices from the likes of Qualcomm, NVIDIAand Samsung.  Intel’s Clover Trail+ architecture, launched earlier this year, definitely offers a better Windows 8 tablet experience but it didn’t invigorate mobile device manufacturers to invest in Android on X86.

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