Technology
How many commands does a modern computer processor execute per second?
Trillions
Background
A modern processor runs trillions of commands every second. That is billions of calculations in just the blink of an eye. The first Intel chip from 1971 managed only 92,000 commands per second. Today's smartphones are millions of times faster than 70s computers.
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