Desktop processors reached another milestone today with the release of Intel's 3.06GHz Pentium 4. Surpassing the 3GHz mark is significant--Intel's is the first chip to do so--but the new P4 represents more than just a jump in raw processing speed. The 3.06GHz P4 is also the first desktop chip to include Intel's new Hyper-Threading technology. Available in servers for more than a year now, Hyper-Threading allows a single processor to function as if it were two. The result is a processor that can run two parts of an application at once or multiple applications more efficiently.

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