Nixta Sinks

I'm surely not *so* technically savvy that I've lost touch with the ordinary people of the world on technical subjects, am I? Actually, I quite pride myself on being able to explain technical things to morons in layman's terms. Sometimes, it's the only way I can explain things. But this? This is just too much.

I made it 3 paragraphs through the article when alarm bells began to clang every so lightly:

Intel's shift reflects a change for the chip industry, which is moving away from boosts in megahertz and gigahertz.

Gigahertz AND megahertz. I've never thought of using both! Genius!

But at the next paragraph I concluded my reading, reverting to google-eyedness and uncontrolled silent flapping of the lower jaw:

Instead it is looking to boost chip performance in ways other than simply increasing computational brainpower, also known as clock speed.

Now I never knew that "clock speed", when talking about processors, was just another way of saying "Computational Brainpower". Well well well. No wonder everyone's been looking at me cock-eyed for the past 15 years.