IBM introduces their new Power 575 supercomputer using the POWER6 processor and hydro cluster water cooling technology to achieve record speeds up to 5 GHz. According to IBM it is equipped with 448 processor cores per rack offers users nearly five times the performance and more than three times the energy efficiency of its predecessor.

IBM, Sony Corporation and Toshiba Corporation release key details of the upcoming Cell Chip. The cell chip uses parallel-processing, contains eight microprocessors that communicate that communicates with each other and can produce up to 10 times the performance of the latest PC processors. The chip also supports the ability of running multiple operating systems simultaneously. The Cell Chip is expected to be used in the upcoming Sony PlayStation 3.

nVIDIA's Scalable Link Interface (SLI) technology combines the power of 2 graphic cards: Combining two NVIDIA SLI-certified graphics cards in a single system allows you to essentially double your graphics performance (up to 2x). NVIDIA SLI-certified GPUs feature dedicated, built-in SLI hardware and take advantage of the additional bandwidth of the PCI Express bus architecture.

Sony VAIO Type X has the ability to record 7 TV channels at once, a storage compacity of up to one terabyte and has the ability to function as a standard PC using the Microsoft Windows XP OS. Currently the Type X is only available in Japan.