Check out the Intels ULV processors. Intel haven't bothered to do anything with Atom because they don't want to cannibalize their own products. Long before Ato

Check out the Intels ULV processors. Intel haven't bothered to do anything with Atom because they don't want to cannibalize their own products. Long before Atom even came out a dualcore Core Duo ULV processor with a TDP of 5 was usually twice as fast as the Atom, if you disabled one of the cores on the Core Duo ... In other words about four times the performance at a much lower power consumption. I'm writing this on a 7 year old laptop sporting such a processor... Yes it is slow, but compared to an atom it the performance is just hysterical. The Atom is, and has always been, a pathetic joke in all regards except for price. And the performance is so abysmal that the only reason it ever sold was because of shortsithed consumers that can't look passed the price tag. Which of course took everyone by surprise, and intel obviously haven't dared to improve on Atom too much since it's launch for this very reason.