Apparently, Intel’s upcoming amazing processor dubbed Nehalem, will have a feature which will essentially allow it to go into turbo mode.  This feature will be called “power gate”, and what it does, is it turns off cores that would otherwise be left idle when they’re not in use, and reroutes the power budget that normally would be applied to those cores to the active cores, which promises to further boost their performance without wasting power. According to Intel, that’ll be a standard feature across the entire Nehalem family, including the first mobile versions of the processor that’ll be at the center of the Calpella platform, which is on track for a launch sometime next year.

-Jameson