This is probably the world's largest overclock ever. A 350Ghz CPU clocked to 500Ghz at a temperature of -451F

http://news.com.com/Chip+breaks+speed+record+in+deep+freeze/2100-1006_3-6085568.html?tag=nefd.top

Hell, I'll take 2 of the ones that "only" run at 350Ghz at room temperature....

So that would be 500GHz, not 5000GHz

*mutters* stupid crappy old keyboard with sticky keys *mutters*

Yes, its 500Ghz (five-hundred), not 5000Ghz - title edited

A 5 THz processor I read somewhere about a theory that explains how you could get a clock speed of as high as 16THz...I'll see if I can find it (it was on a nanotechnology page somewhere...)

I was reading about a new battery being worked on that used nanotechnology (specifically, nanotubes). The battery would last longer, and recharge in minutes (even seconds). Best of all, the basic tech is already available. The idea was to take a capacitor, and dump a whole bunch of nanotubes on the rolled surfaces, drastically increasing the surface area, and therefore the charge the capacitor can hold.

Supposedly it should be available within the next 5 years

Well, I didn't find the page I was looking for (I probably have it bookmarked back home), but I did find an interesting read nonetheless:
http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/nanotube/

Speaking of batteries, 'wirelesss power' has been around for a couple of years:http://www.splashpower.com/

Wireless power has been feasable since Tesla's days - thats what the initial point of the tesla coil was for, to turn the entire world itself into a "wire" for power. However, everone called him crazy, said it was impossible, then like 30-40 years later were like, oh crap, he was right the whole time (but by then he was dead)

Just like Wegener who theorized Pangaea and Plate Tectonics

Wow, that's incredibly amazing. I wish my computer went 500GHz... but then I'd need a large stock of liquid helium lying around.

Screw 500ghz at -451F, did you notice it was running at 350Ghz at room temperature? Thats crazy. (Then you don't need to spend thousands on cooling it, either...)

Well, here's the tank:http://cgi.ebay.com/Liquid-Helium-Dewar-Milli-Kelvin-Cryostat-Tank_W0QQitemZ7572628568QQcategoryZ119115QQcmdZViewItem

At $5999, it's a steal!

Ooooh, excellent deal. Well, what kind of "chip" is it though? Is it actually a microprocessor?

I think it is a microprocessor, with the difference (allowing for the massive speed, i mean) is the material it is made out of. It is SiGe, which is more expensive than just straight Si, or Si "sprinkled" with Ge that appears in some desktop CPUs

(In a humorous touch, I like the "now cryogenically frozen people can have computers too!" part at the end )

I got the SiGe stuff, but I got the impression the chips weren't full microprocessors. I may have been wrong...

Well, to get them to run that fast I would assume that the die process is a lot smaller...