It’s just the agreed metric for all capacities except for RAM. Your Gigabit network card also doesn’t transfer a full Gibibit (or 125 Mebibytes) in a single second. Yet nobody complains. Because it’s only the operating system manufacturer that thinks his product needs AI that keeps using the prefix wrongly (or at least did, I’m not up to speed). Everyone else either uses SI units (Apple) or correctly uses the “bi”-prefixes.
A twelve core 3 GHz processor is also cheating you out of a 2.4 GiHz core by the same logic. It’s not actually 3 x 2^30 Hz.
It’s just the agreed metric for all capacities except for RAM. Your Gigabit network card also doesn’t transfer a full Gibibit (or 125 Mebibytes) in a single second. Yet nobody complains. Because it’s only the operating system manufacturer that thinks his product needs AI that keeps using the prefix wrongly (or at least did, I’m not up to speed). Everyone else either uses SI units (Apple) or correctly uses the “bi”-prefixes.
A twelve core 3 GHz processor is also cheating you out of a 2.4 GiHz core by the same logic. It’s not actually 3 x 2^30 Hz.