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Intel Closes Atom Division; Relinquishes Plan for Mobile Market

Phenny Lynn Palec   |

May 02, 2016 05:50 PM EDT

Intel is closing down its Atom division and finally giving up on its plans to make a foray into the smartphone and tablet market. Atom was initially intended to scale down Intel's desktop x86 processor architecture for it to work efficiently with mobile devices. While it was an interesting idea at first, the strategy did not work well as the mobile market is dominated by ARM processors, which work on either Android or the iOS platform.