The beeb have an article about IBM, Sony and Toshiba's 'Cell' chip online today, this is of course the chip that will power the Playstation 3 amongst other things.

The three firms claim that the Cell chip will be up to 10 times more powerful than existing processors.

When put inside powerful computer servers, the Cell consortium expects it to be capable of handling 16 trillion floating point operations, or calculations, every second.