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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.

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 ...

AMD's upcoming Strix Halo mobile processor, featuring up to 16 "Zen 5" CPU cores and a powerful integrated GPU with 40 compute units, is beginning to appear in online benchmark databases. The launch ...