My scale wasn't off, but I agree, it was quite misleading. When I said measured in picoseconds, I was thinking about 300-500 picoseconds roughly. However, CPUs

My scale wasn't off, but I agree, it was quite misleading. When I said measured in picoseconds, I was thinking about 300-500 picoseconds roughly. However, CPUs can also execute more than one instruction in a cycle so effectively, you can have more instructions than cycles.