Blazing Cool Chip
IBM & Georgia Institute of Technology have created a silicon-germanium semiconductor chip that can run at 500 GHz when cooled to -268 degrees Celcius and 350 GHz at room temperature. Compare that to current computer chips that run at most at 3-4 GHz, it's a giant leap. They say that such technology would reach consumers in about 1-2 years and could potentially support near the frequency of a Terahertz at room temperature.