Funny comments. For those who think the numbers are "fast" and that Intel "cant possibly" do better, please observe:
http://www.fusionio.com/PDFs/FusionDataSheet.pdf
And their just a startup, not a multi-billion dollar corporation with almost 40 years in the market.
I think the next 5 years is going to really reshape computing a lot more than the last 10. CPU parallelism, optical interconnects, ray tracing, and finally solid state storage is going to have more effect that people realize. Mix that in with all the advances in the biotech industry, and it's going to be an interesting time to be a carbon based meatsack.
PS: Thats not the only thing stopping people from taking control over your computer. SSDs are no different than conventional disks in this manner, the system is either on or off. You cant start up a system with the processor powered down, no matter what the hard drive is based on. A more realistic threat, is flash memory on the motherboard and processes having access to CPU ring -1, so that even virus software wont know the virus is running your whole system as a VM. It's time to trash your motherboard then, because you could never really know if your own Hypervisor was really at -1 or if something else was just emulating it.