The Basic Unit of Measurement for the Speed of a CPU

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The basic unit of measurement for the speed of a CPU is the hertz. One hertz simply refers to one cycle per second (Bindal, 2019). In modern times, CPUs have evolved to handle billions of cycles per second. The modern CPUs are composed of billions of micro transistors that go on and off each second. The on and off-state represents the binary code of zeros and ones since most computers process binary code. As the CPUs have evolved to include millions and billions of cycles per second, the unit of measurement has also changed. Considering that one hertz represents a single cycle per second, a million cycles per second are represented by one megahertz (MHz). A billion cycles per second, on the other hand, are represented by ...