Cakewalk has been in partnership with Intel for more than a decade now. Here are some latest links on our engineering collaboration with them to make music production even more efficient on a PC.
http://software.intel.com/sites/billboard/digital-content-creation-gallery/sonar-8.php#/videos
http://software.intel.com/sites/billboard/pdf/Cakewalk_SuccessStory_LO.pdf