The Atom-based processors are bad not because of market segmentation but because Intel is perennially unable to make more than one good architecture at a time.

The Atom-based processors are bad not because of market segmentation but because Intel is perennially unable to make more than one good architecture at a time. The ones that are bad because of market segmentation are the processors with a Core family microarchitecture lobotomized down to the i3, Pentium or Celeron product lines, leaving them years behind on feature support that's physically present but fused off.