Georgia Tech Phd student Ram Krithivasan examines a 'frozen' Silicon Germanium chip inside a cryogenic station at the Georgia Electronic Design Center in Atlanta. IBM and Georgia Tech today announced that they have broken the world silicon speed record with a chip that operates at half a trillion cycles per second, some 250 times faster than chips found in conventional cell phones.
http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/photo/19844.wss
Of course, this probably just means a single transistor switching at 500GHz, not that you'll have a 500GHz CPU tomorrow.
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