Intel is pushing x86-compatible computing into new frontiers with an all-new CPU architecture, dubbed Atom. We recently visited the offices of the Atom design team and spoke with several of the chip's architects. Read on to see what we learned.

"Today, Silverthorne and Menlow are taking their final shape with the introduction of the Intel Atom processor and the Centrino Atom mobile computing brand. Thanks to an all-new CPU microarchitecture and companion core-logic chip, Intel is pushing x86-compatible computing into new frontiers. To better understand how they did it, we recently visited the Austin, Texas offices of the Silverthorne design team and spoke with several of the chips' architects. Read on for an extensive overview of this new CPU and its related technology."