Gigacycle Per Second (Noun)
Meaning
1,000,000,000 periods per second.
Classification
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations.
Examples
- The computer's central processing unit was capable of executing one gigacycle per second, making it one of the fastest models on the market.
- In 2014 Intel introduced a microprocessor running at an astonishing five gigacycles per second.
- Companies are racing to develop chips that break the one gigacycle per second barrier to meet the growing demands of data centres.
- Several models of graphics processing units were tested at half a gigacycle per second and it was found performance still improved at higher frequencies.
- Physicists planned for supercomputer to model weather events at rates of 4 gigacycles per second a rate recently seen only in theoretical simulations.