I just read an article about IBM's new super chip which could process 5 billion instructions per second. It's amazing how far technology has come and where will it be a few years from now. The endless seach for better and faster ways to work with technology is always fun to learn about.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/09/BUBI10258F.DTL