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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.

E very PC enthusiast has heard the phrase "silicon lottery" tossed around hardware circles, usually followed up by complaints ...

One of the first things I used to notice while going through the specs of a CPU was its clock speed, because it seemed like an easy way to judge single-core performance at first glance. Modern CPUs ...

The Intel Core i7 series is witnessing advancements in both desktop and mobile computing sectors. The mobile variant, Core i7-14700HX, possesses 20 cores and 28 threads, comparable to the desktop ...

Intel teased its next-gen Rocket Lake-S processor family back in early-October, trying to get ahead of AMD's stomping with Zen 3 -- and now we're hearing some early specs on the new Core i9-11900K ...

Ahead of last Friday's launch of the new Retina MacBook, we saw several early benchmarks for the entry-level notebook running a 1.1 GHz Intel Core M processor, putting CPU performance for the new ...

Intel has officially announced the Intel Core i9-9900KS 8-Core 4.0GHz, a special edition processor which will be heading to store shelves near you from October 30th. The high-end chip will be priced ...