A detailed article over at ComputerWorld suggests that both LG and Samsung may unveil new Android smartphones next week at CES, what’s unique about these is that they may utilize one of Intel’s latest Atom chips, rather than an ARM-based microprocessor. CW says that ARM currently makes up for 95% of the processors in smartphones, so this is a very bold move. One analyst claims that Intel and Google have spent time together to optimize Android for Atom chips, there are also rumors that Intel-owned McAfee could perhaps be somehow integrated into the operating system to further-enhance security.

We recently suggested that Intel could perhaps be showing off an Android smartphone at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, which further solidifies rumors of Atom chips being brought to smartphones in 2012 – it will be interesting to see how such chips compare to top-end offerings from Qualcomm and Nvidia. Maybe Intel could undercut its rivals to tempt smartphone manufacturers to move away from established mobile processor suppliers, either that or perhaps Intel feel confident that Atom chips will outperform chips such as the Tegra 3.

It makes sense for Intel to dabble in different markets as these days a lot of people use their smartphones and tablets for tasks which we once had to use desktop computers and laptops for, it looks certain that Windows 8 will run on ARM-based hardware when it arrives, therefore AMD may not be Intel’s biggest rivals in years to come – what do you think?

We can’t wait to see how Intel’s new Atom chips compare to Qualcomm and Nvidia offerings at CES 2012, however we do remain a little skeptical at present. Hopefully we will come across some useful benchmarks next week, when we do we will keep you posted.

Let’s start with power consumption, according to PCWorld.com the 512 Atoms will provide better performance-per-watt than an Intel Xeon or AMD Opteron-based servers, apparently it is targeted towards data centers which deal with e-mail, social networking and search, the Atom chips allow for quick processing of small amounts of data, whereas Xeon and Opeteron CPUs are suited to more intensive tasks.

It is thought that this server consumers 15-17% less power than its predecessor (the SM10000 server), also the last server only supported 32-bit software and had a 2GB addressable memory ceiling, whereas the SM10000-64 supports 64-bit software and has a 4GB ceiling.

The server supports up to 1TB of DDR3 RAM and allows for up to 64 hard drives / solid-state drives, it is 17.5 inch tall, which equates to 10 server racks. If you are really interested in SeaMicro’s new server check out the official website for detailed specifications and an overview.

As you would probably expect this server is not cheap, prices start at $148,000, but just remember you are saving roughly 17% on power consumption costs, I wonder if other server manufacturers will begin to utilize high-numbers of Atom CPUs.

You do not have to be an expert to see that this is a C64 replica, firstly you get the awesome nostalgic looks but with today’s tech inside. An Intel Atom CPU, 4GB of DDR3 RAM, 1TB of storage and a choice of either DVD or Blu-ray drive will power the computer.

All of this will be squeezed into a replica of the Commodore 64, the company knows that it will be hard getting everything inside the case, but they do say that they are up for the challenge.

Joseph L. Flatley from Engadget is not that confidant that Commodore will be able to pull it off, what do you think?