All the possibilities are managed by 600 2-gigahertz chips (from AMD) in ten servers.
McCaw has spent several years assembling extensive bandwidth in the 2.5 Gigahertz spectrum range.
Watson Research Center built the fastest graphene transistor to date, clocking in at 26 gigahertz.
Apple developed a 1-gigahertz processor called the A4 that powers the iPhone 4 and iPad.
The Nexus S from Google and Samsung Electronics uses a snappy, 1-gigahertz chip called Hummingbird.
In an uncharacteristically quiet announcement, Apple uses "gigahertz" in describing one of its computers.
Gigahertz computers are fed by Web pipes large enough to suck a freight train in a microsecond.
Intel Chief Executive PaulOtelliniPaul Otellini says megahertz and gigahertz is out, and "performance per watt" is in.
What I wanted to see was something the gigahertz PC could do that my old machine couldn't.
The highest-profile result was the release this yearof AMD's 1-gigahertz Athlon microprocessor, which competes against Intel's fastest Pentium.
Apple will still sell an older configuration that boots to OS 9, a dual 1.25 gigahertz, until June.
Now PC chips are running with clock speeds of 2 gigahertz, or 2 billion clock cycles a second.
The highest-profile result was the release this year of AMD's 1-gigahertz Athlon microprocessor, which competes against Intel's fastest Pentium.
We have to wonder if perhaps the forthcoming 3 gigahertz Pentium 4 might find its way to this machine.
And then there's the mysterious and often misunderstood processor clock speed, measured in megahertz, and now often in gigahertz.
As processor speeds gallop toward the gigahertz (1000-MHz) mark, you may wonder which vendor will reach that milestone first.
Sure, the PS3 was expensive, but it was loaded with features, like high-definition DVD playback and a hyper-fast 3.2 gigahertz processor.
The 802.11b standard uses the unregulated 2.4 gigahertz radio band, which is already overloaded with cordless phones, microwave ovens and streetlights.
Fios customers or wannabes: Keep an eye out for the next-generation Verizon One, a 5.8-gigahertz cordless phone with a sleek touch-screen panel.
The camcorder comes with software that lets you move video to and from a 2-gigahertz (or faster) Windows computer via FireWire cable.
AMD's new quad-core Phenom desktop processors based on AMD's four-core Barcelona design will be available at clock speeds of 2.3 gigahertz and 2.2 GHz.
The new line of phones feature a quad-core processor called K3V2 that was developed in-house and timed at 1.2 gigahertz per second (GHz).
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That in itself is progress, though some will certainly complain that the Motorola-made G4 chip is still falling short of the one-gigahertz mark.
Similar to other Samsung Galaxy phones, the Indulge has a 3.5-inch touchscreen display, a 1 gigahertz Samsung processor and runs Android (version 2.2).
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The number crunching is done by an AMD Geode processor running at a modest 433 megahertz, compared with the 2-3 gigahertz of conventional laptops.
Bluetooth uses a radio signal in the 2.4-gigahertz range to connect two or more devices for sharing data when they're close to each other.
Its indium phosphide chips are already the world's fastest, with speeds of up to 150 gigahertz, or eight times that of similar silicon devices.
But they ran into a wall when the last Pentium reached 3.8 gigahertz and was hot enough to bake a scone inside a server.
Intel's latest Core 2 processor (either 1.6 or 1.8 gigahertz) is at the heart, along with an 80-gigabyte hard drive that measures 1.8 inches across.
But as surely as you trashed your old Intel 486 machine, the day will come when anything less than a gigahertz PC will not do.
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