As companies increasingly focus on reducing electricity bills and cooling costs associated with their computing needs, these new processors, requiring just 12,5 watts of power for each of the four cores or processing engines, deliver similar performance, yet set a new standard in energy efficiency, Intel adds.  

Servers based on low-power, quad-core processors are designed for dense Internet datacenters, blade servers and industries such as financial services, where the scale and density of servers are highly sensitive to power, real estate and cooling costs.

The potential for cost savings by replacing aging infrastructure with Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors and deploying virtualisation technology can be as much as $6000 per year over the lifetime of each server, based on Intels evaluations.

In addition, these processors are claimed to represent a nearly ten-fold improvement in power consumption per core in just 18 months. The company attributes this collective success to the merits of its Intel Core micro-architecture and design execution.