Peta is derived from the Greek word "pente", which means five. In the realm of science, Peta, or P, is the SI (Systeme International) prefix for 10^15 or 1,000,000,000,000,000.
Hertz, as we all know, is a unit of frequency equal to one cycle per second named after Heinrich Rudolf Hertz - a German physicist who was the first man to produce electromagnetic waves artificially.
PetaHertz is a unit of measure for very fast frequencies. If Moore's Law remains accurate, we could see computer processors reach speeds near 1 PetaHertz as early as 2022!
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