That microprocessor has 29,000 transistors and operates at a speed of 10 million cycles per second.
Today's microprocessors tend to have 55 million transistors and run at a speed of 3.4 billion cycles per second.
One day, Richards told me, he was watching as Partch set up up his legendary Marimba Eroica, whose lowest note vibrates at twenty-two cycles per second.
Most fibrillar muscles work at high frequencies, often of several hundred cycles per second, but they are kept working by action potentials arriving at much lower frequencies.
One day after introducing the two-gigahertz Pentium 4, the fastest microprocessor on the market, he punctuated that vow by demonstrating a prototype chip that runs at 3.5 gigahertz, or 3.5 billion cycles per second.
"Say you're waiting for a subway train and you're standing next to an electric signal box humming at sixty cycles per second — which, by the way, is a B-flat.
The new A.M.D. and Intel processors mark the beginning of an era when we start measuring PC performance in gigahertz (a billion computational cycles per second) instead of megahertz (a million cycles per second), but what does that really mean for consumers?
Cesium, the element most commonly used in high-precision atomic clocks, is nudged into an excited state at a microwave frequency of just under 9.2 billion cycles per second.
In solid-state electroluminescence, the radiative processes occurring in a phosphor under irradiation are produced by applying external electric fields of several hundred volts, alternating at several thousand cycles per second.
The clocks currently used to set the international time standard rely on microwaves with a frequency of 9.2 billion cycles per second being shone on cesium atoms.Like older atomic clocks, the NIST device relies on an electron pendulum.
