TAIPEI, Taiwan — During the Computex trade show here today, Taiwan's Via Technologies Inc. announced a plethora of new products, including a 1-GHz, x86-based microprocessor for PCs. The Taipei-based ...

One of the most frequently touted measures of processor performance is a given chip's speed in gigahertz. Processors with higher GHz ratings can, theoretically, do more in a given unit of time than ...

The term "gigahertz," or "GHz," refers to the operating speed of a central processing unit; hertz defines the clock rate, or cycles per second, of the CPU. 1 GHz is equivalent to one billion hertz.

Milpitas, Sunnyvale, and Fremont, Calif. – Open-Silicon, Inc., MIPS Technologies, Inc., and Virage Logic have achieved successful 65 nanometer (nm) silicon testing of a processor test chip at 1.1GHz, ...

So here's the story: dude asks LG's US mobile team on Facebook when the Optimus One-- the basis for the various Optimus devices that have launched recently on American carriers -- will be getting ...

Intel last week expanded its line of mobile processors with faster, more energy efficient Pentium III chips, while rival AMD started shipping a 1.1GHz Duron processor. With these introductions, Intel ...

The new iPods that Apple announced this morning were outed a couple of weeks ago, but the insides of the new iPod Touch were still a surprise: Apple put an A8 in the new Touch, the same SoC that ...

SUNNYVALE, Calif. - Advanced Micro Devices Inc. introduced Monday the latest microprocessor in its Duron line, matching rival Intel Corp.'s on speed and price as the two slug it out for market share ...

Samsung's Captivate phone on AT&T has a 1 GHz processor. It's the fastest available in smartphones currently, but that's not enough computing power for some Android enthusiasts. An Android developer ...