"This is the fastest processor on the planet," he said. "We are passing a threshold for killer new apps."
The quad-core processor has 731 million transistors and is built to handle single, double and quadruple threaded applications.
Gelsinger said that power management has been built in so that for single or double threaded software two cores will shut down while the others overclock, or turboboost themselves, to handle the workload.
So far the processor has broken all speed records, according to the company, and will open the door to new applications that would previously been hampered by poor performance.
