Intel’s new processor chips now have 40% more transistors. It sounds like a commercial for Cheerios: “New Cheerios with 40% more nuts!” But, unlike Cheerios, Intel’s new processor chips will do a few billion computations a second.

Also, not only will these new chips be faster, but they will also be more efficient. As the circuitry in the chips ges smaller and smaller more electricity is lost resulting in more power needed to power the chip’s trillions of transactions. With these new chips, less energy will be lost resulting in longer battery life for notebooks and smaller power consumption in desktops and servers.

These new chips will be from 2 GHz - 3.2 GHz in quad-core processors and up to 3.4 GHz in dual-core models.

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