Instead, it's the gigahertz that are hot in a thriller that treats technology as its biggest turn-on.
Currently, the fastest transistors--found in telecommunication technology--are clocked at a couple hundred gigahertz.
In high-energy accelerators, switching the voltage happens several billion times per second, or gigahertz frequencies.
British Dictionary definitions for gigahertz
gigahertz
/ˈɡɪɡəˌhɜːts; ˈdʒɪɡ-/
noun (pl) -hertz
1.
a unit of frequency equal to 109 hertz GHz
gigahertz in Science
gigahertz
(gĭg'ə-hûrtz') A unit of frequency equal to one billion (109) hertz.
gigahertz in Technology
unit (GHz) Billions of cycles per second. The unit of frequency used to measure the clock rate of modern digital logic, including microprocessors. (2001-05-14)