Intel has announced an expansion of Intel architecture—a new instruction set that constitutes the most impactful instructions since SSE2 and represents the next major leap in Intel's fast-paced trajectory to deliver products with superior performance, capability, and energy-efficiency.

Building on the Intel® 64 Instruction Set Architecture (ISA), these new instructions will enable our microprocessors across all volume market segments to deliver superior performance and energy efficiency to a broad range of 32 and 64-bit applications.

These new instructions include: ...
* Application Targeted Accelerators that will provide a new foundation for delivering low-latency, lower power fixed-function capabilities for targeted applications.

These instructions represent another milestone in Intel's new cadence for the continuous development of next-generation silicon processes and processor architectures. Applications that will benefit include those involving graphics, video encoding and processing, 3-D imaging, gaming, Web servers, and application servers. High-performance applications that will benefit include data mining; databases; complex searching and pattern matching algorithms; audio, video, image, and data compression algorithms; parsing and state machine-based algorithms; and many more.