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What does GHz stand for?

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Gigahatz

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Gigahertz is a unit of measurement for alternating current or electromagnetic wave frequencies equal to one billion hertz. In computing, it typically represents the clock speed of a CPU, indicating how many billions of instruction cycles a processor can perform per second.

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