Intel has revealed new details of its forthcoming Santa Rosa PC platform, including a significant revision of the Core 2 Duo processor. According to the article, when running a single threaded application, one of the two cores can go into sleep mode. The left over power can be used by the other core to give it a 'turbo boost.' Whoah!

"The idea is the following," explained Eden. "If you are running a single threaded application, one of the cores can go to sleep, and the left over power can be used by the other core - we give it a turbo boost; the ability to run faster than it used to. "This is not overclocking. Overclocking is when you take a chip and increase its clock speed and run it out of spec. This is not out of spec. Here, it is within the spec of the dual-cores, we just identify when one core is not using the headroom and we give it to the other core. "This is called Enhanced Dynamic Acceleration Technology. We've had problems implementing it, but we've been able to do it in Santa Rosa," Eden said.