The term "gigahertz," or "GHz," refers to the operating speed of a central processing unit; hertz defines the clock rate, or cycles per second, of the CPU. 1 GHz is equivalent to one billion hertz.

One of the most frequently touted measures of processor performance is a given chip's speed in gigahertz. Processors with higher GHz ratings can, theoretically, do more in a given unit of time than ...

Our company (Freescale at the time, before we formed part of NXP) was faced with a challenge: We had built and were sampling initial silicon of an 8-core 2 GHz processor, the LS2088A, but customers ...

The Galaxy Grand DUOS bearing model number GT-I9082 is powered by a dual-core Cortex-A9 central processing unit with each cores running at clock speeds up to 1.2GHz. Those who are not happy with the ...

The original Sandy Bridge processors at the default baseclock (BLCK) were rather horrible to overclock. It has a lot to do with how the processor deals with the embedded graphics subsystem. If you ...