Intel's 4-inch Compute Stick, meanwhile, will utilize a 64-bit quad-core Atom Bay Trail CPU. The lightweight Bay Trail SoC models family contain Silvermont Atom cores and typically target tablets ...

The story starts with a friend giving me an Intel Compute Stick. But the problems I had were not specific to that hardware, but rather how modern Linux distributions manage their start-up process.

Last July, I took note when Intel released the Neural Compute Stick. It looked like an oversized USB stick, and acted as an accelerator for local AI applications, especially machine vision.

Lenovo's Ideacentre Stick 300 actually takes a page out of Intel's book by utilizing the Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip company's Atom Z3735, the same processor that Intel's Compute Stick runs on.

While not for everyone, there are situations that make a computer stick truly useful. Some examples are: The Intel CS125 and Intel CS325 are regarded as the best PC sticks on the market thanks to ...