Radical cell prossesor, please

According to Forbes, Sony’s PS3 will be shipping later this year with IBM’s new radical Cell processors (Cell for short), which are apparently capable of mind-blowing statistics.

But the particular number that really gets me excited is this:

The Cell chip, based on a design inspired by supercomputers, runs at least ten times as fast as Intel’s most powerful Pentium.

That kind of power can only mean that we have finally, truly, broken the 3ghz barrier with computers (in performance as well as pointless numbers). The desktop I’m running now is a beast - I’ve had it for almost four years, and it still works remarkably well with some of the most demanding games, image, and video software.

Why? Because we’ve been more or less in the same place for years. Sure, we have parallel processing and other fancy tricks to boost performance enough to keep selling new computers, but nothing really revolutionary or breakthrough breathtaking.

I hope this is it.