Intel is gearing up for its most important product launch since the introduction of the original Pentium processor, a top executive said today.

Anand Chandrasekher, senior vice president and general manager of Intel’s sales and marketing group, will introduce a series of new dual-core chips on Tuesday, including models tailored for desktop PCs, notebooks, and servers, that offer significant performance gains.

For example, the Merom mobile processor, which will be unveiled Tuesday, offers a 20-percent increase in performance over Intel’s Core Duo mobile processors when they are run at the same clock speed.

Source: PCWorld