How to Use gigahertz in a Sentence

gigahertz

noun
  • The radar sensor sends out 60-gigahertz pulses through the walls and lining of the shelter.
    — Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 29 July 2024
  • While not always the case, the higher the gigahertz, the faster the computer processing speed.
    — Kevin Cortez, Popular Mechanics, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The new device operates at speeds up to 40 gigahertz at 20 millikelvin.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 12 May 2023
  • This device has already achieved 1 gigahertz with the potential to scale into the hundreds of gigahertz.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 14 Jan. 2026
  • And gigahertz signals represent a stream of data that won’t overwhelm a computer’s ability to track it.
    — Margo Anderson, IEEE Spectrum, 24 Sep. 2019
  • In contrast, lightning on Earth can produce gigahertz radio waves, which are millions of times higher in frequency.
    — Charles Q. Choi, Scientific American, 7 June 2018
  • This means processing speeds in devices based on them could reach femtoseconds, a million times as fast as the speeds achievable with current gigahertz electronics.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 6 Nov. 2023
  • GHz, or gigahertz, is a measurement of frequency in Wi-Fi networks.
    — Kara McGinley, USA Today, 11 June 2025
  • The company claims the data connection is the first announced worldwide in the 28 gigahertz band using chips that are small enough to be used in smartphones.
    — Mike Freeman, sandiegouniontribune.com, 18 Oct. 2017
  • All 377 lightning discharges recorded in Juno’s first eight flybys struck in the Earth-like megahertz and gigahertz range.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 8 June 2018
  • That does indeed sound dated compared to the current crop of hypercars, which boast megawatts of hybrid or electric power and gigahertz of processing power to tame it all.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 20 Dec. 2019
  • Wi-Fi receivers typically transmit at about a five gigahertz frequency.
    — Gary Fowler, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2021
  • The atmosphere blocks frequencies higher than about 10 gigahertz.
    — Meghan Bartels, Newsweek, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Computers rely on much faster electrical signals and gigahertz-scale processors to react.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 19 Jan. 2016
  • That band — 24 gigahertz — sits right next to one that federal scientists use to detect water vapor emissions in the atmosphere.
    — Susanne Rust, latimes.com, 20 June 2019
  • And so it‘s no surprise that millimeter wave is opening up huge multi-gigabit-per-second data rates, given the bandwidth itself, can approach a gigahertz.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Such transmission would nevertheless have been subject to the limitation of the electronic repeaters, likely a few gigahertz at most.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 26 July 2023
  • BlueBird is designed to support 10 gigahertz of bandwidth and speeds of 120 megabytes per second for a mobile device.
    — Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 29 Dec. 2025
  • When everyone else is selling gigahertz, Satjiv Chahil, chief marketing officer at Palm, likes to sell glamour.
    — Tom McNichol, WIRED, 1 Nov. 2000
  • The radio waves that come from these towers are in the megahertz-to- low-gigahertz range and vary according to which bits of spectrum a carrier has licensed from the FCC.
    — Christopher Mims, WSJ, 25 Mar. 2018
  • The thorium-229 spectra used in the current study had a linewidth of about 20 gigahertz, considered broad compared to the razor-thin signals needed to probe dark matter.
    — New Atlas, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The 64 to 71 gigahertz band can now be used by any carrier, including AT&T, on an unlicensed basis.
    — Paul Barbagallo, Bloomberg.com, 11 May 2017
  • Smaller than a fingernail, the sensor operates at 60 gigahertz, which means its signal can penetrate many common materials.
    — Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 29 July 2024
  • That high up in the electromagnetic spectrum, the chip can take advantage of a full 10 gigahertz of bandwidth, which leads to millimeter-scale resolution, its inventors say.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 16 May 2019
  • The radio spectrum of mmWave resides between 30 and 300 gigahertz, compared to the sub-6 GHz bands used today.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 May 2018
  • One vision for 6G is to use new-to-cellular frequencies ranging from 100 gigahertz up into terahertz frequencies.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Radar at frequencies higher than the 3 gigahertz used by air-traffic controllers can detect objects even smaller than 1 inch across, provided they are made of a reflective material such as metal.
    — Tom Avril, Philly.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • By using such ephemeral voltage pulses, each lasting a picosecond or so, RSFQ promised to boost clock speeds to greater than 100 gigahertz.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 24 Feb. 2016
  • This sustained magnetization precession produces frequencies from hundreds of megahertz to several tens of gigahertz.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 26 July 2017
  • Current wireless communications can use signals that are as fast as tens of gigahertz; future 6G communications need signals as fast as 1 terahertz.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Feb. 2023

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