The Atom cloud

With cloud computing being all the rage there is still the problem of where to put the cloud. However Intel recently provided a solution, the Atom processor. If all the stars align, meaning that WiMax connectivity is as good as promised and battery life concerns can be addressed, the best place to put the cloud could be in your pocket. The ultimate cloud computer could be built out of cell phones and music players. Think about it, unless you are obsessive most of the time your cell phone and music player sit and wait to be used. I figure by the time the mobile cloud can be built there won’t be a difference; you will have one device that is the size of an iPhone/Blackberry hybrid. (It can’t be too small or the screen and keyboard will be unusable.)
To be most things to most people the ultra-mobile digital platform will need to have significant amounts of solid state memory and an Atom type processor. But like your current iPod it will spend most of its time sitting around waiting for you to use it, as will millions of other people’s. This resource of millions of uberPods or uPods all connected to the internet, could have more computational power than a current generation ASCI “color” computer, without all the overhead.