Opera 9 has just been released. Microsoft wants to end phone tag. Well IBM has gotten one of its special processors to run at 500 GHz albeit near absolute zero temps.

At room temperature, the IBM-Georgia Tech chip operates at 350GHz, or 350 billion cycles per second. That's far faster than standard PC processors today, which range from 3.8GHz to 1.8GHz. But SiGe chips can gain additional performance in colder temperatures.