If computer clocks max out somewhere around 5GHz, how is it possible for 100Gbit internet to exist? How does the computer possibly transfer that much data per second?

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If computer clocks max out somewhere around 5GHz, how is it possible for 100Gbit internet to exist? How does the computer possibly transfer that much data per second?

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Answer 1

Consider how a parent (the CPU) is in charge of the household (the computer system).

A parent can tell the child to go grab a book off the bookshelf and put it on the table (grabbing a file / data from the internet and putting it on the local drive).

The parent has only given one command. But the amount of information on that one command is a lot. The parent isn’t reading every single line of the book, it’s packaging the whole book and saying what to do with it.