What has the unit Hz to do with CPUs and where is the connection of CPU’s Hz and RAM’s Hz?

Question

RAM = memory

CPU = main processor

Hz = hertz <- frequency’s unit

In: Technology

Answer 1

The frequency, with the unit Hz, is how often something happens. One Hz means that something happens once per second. 100 Hz means 100 times per second. Now, simply put, everything happening in a CPU happens on a fixed pulse. One pulse will execute a single instruction on the CPU. 1 MHz is one million instructions per second.
And for RAM, the memory shuffled to and from a RAM also happens on a clock. Pins with electricity are read with a fixed frequency, in Hz, telling you how fast data can be moved.