BANGALORE: Intel India has unveiled the industry's first quad-core processors specifically designed for multi-processor servers running applications.

Such applications are typically run in virtualised environments for server consolidation and database users, enterprise resource planning and business intelligence, a release said.

The six new Quad-core Xeon 7300 processors can deliver more than twice the performance and more than three times the performance per watt over the company's previous generation dual-core products, it said.