For years, clock speed ruled the roost. It was the one metric you could point to, devoid of context, to say one component was "faster" than another. It's literally right there in the name. Clock speed ...

At the heart of all computers is a clock, a dedicated timepiece ensuring that all of the parts of the computer are synchronized and can work together to execute the instructions that the computer ...

Overclocking makes it feel faster, but it can’t overcome the limits that keep the Pi from replacing a mini PC.

Fire up the 2013 remix of the Eagles "Desperado". Listen to the beat: That's 60 beats per minute, or to an engineer, 1 Hertz (Hz). Lady Gaga's "Just Dance" is around twice that. It sounds fast, but ...

For the better part of two decades, the war for PC dominance was simple. It was a brutal, head-to-head arms race fought on a single front: clock speed. From the days of the Pentium 4 and the Athlon XP ...