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clock speed
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clock speed

The internal heartbeat of a computer, also known as "clock rate." The clock circuit uses fixed vibrations generated from a quartz crystal to deliver a steady stream of pulses to the CPU. See clock and MHz.


clock speed [′kläk ‚spēd]
(electronics)

clock speed - clock rate


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While other chipmakers are dialing down clock speeds and adding more computing engines, or cores, to their chips to manage the competing concerns, Armonk, N.
Starting in 2002, the Itanium 2 line was released with clock speeds starting at 900MHz and increasing to 1.
 
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