gigahertz
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- noun
- /ˈɡɪɡəˌhɜrts/
- Specialized
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gigaherzio
- Modern CPUs operate at speeds measured in gigahertz, allowing them to execute billions of calculations every second.
- hundred gigahertz
- gigahertz frequency
- gigahertz range
So we're going at more than a gigahertz, right?
- So we're going at more than a gigahertz, right?
- It seems like as you push beyond five gigahertz on these CPUs, you have to drop F clock.
- But just to tell you, the lamp shift is on the order of a gigahertz.
- You have, you have CPUs, you clock them at, you know, several gigahertz.
- But if you stop and think about it for a second, the cards are not hitting two gigahertz.
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Today, clock signals are measured in gigahertz, with modern CPUs able to process billions of program instructions per second.
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The device emits a 10-gigahertz radar beam and then detects the return signal, which is read by a high-speed signal processor.
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So we're going at more than a gigahertz, right?
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We will have to process and move images at gigahertz rates.
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The memory clocks range anywhere up to two gigahertz today and those are going up.
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It runs at one gigahertz, which is really, really fast.
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The race to 1-gigahertz chips was a major event.
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And then my second question is about Clearwire's spectrum at 2.5 gigahertz.
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The iBabe has an advanced 3.2 gigahertz processor.
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In electronic circuits, transistors have trouble switching electrical signals in the high-frequency gigahertz range, such as those in microwave integrated circuits.
Academic text (1994)
Synonyms
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A unit that shows one billion cycles per second, used for computer processors and Wi-Fi
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A symbol for one billion cycles per second, like gigahertz
A measure of cycles per second equal to one billion
A unit for the number of times something repeats in one second equal to one billion
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Etymology
Gigahertz combines giga-, from a Greek word meaning 'giant' and now used to mean 'billion', with hertz, the name of a scientist used for the unit that measures frequency. So gigahertz is like a 'giant hertz', meaning 'one billion cycles per second'.