Principles of Information Systems (MindTap Course List)
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Clock speed:
- Clock speed is nothing but the rate at which a processor completes processing a cycle.
- It can be also defined as the frequency at which a chip or central processing unit is running and is used as the indicator of processor’s speed.
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