gigabyte
noun
giga·byte
ˈji-gə-ˌbīt 
ˈgi-
ˈgi-
: 1024 megabytes or 1,073,741,824 bytes
also
: one billion bytes
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Another key advantage, the CEO says, is Rebel’s 144 gigabytes of HBM3E memory capacity, a big leap over H100’s 80 gigabytes of HBM3.
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John Kang, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
While many developers at the time settled for simple beeps and boops, Williams coaxed naturalistic environmental sounds from the silicon that modern audio designers, working with gigabytes of sampled audio, would still appreciate.
—ArsTechnica, 1 Apr. 2025
One eBay seller in Raleigh, North Carolina even listed a 128 gigabyte iPhone 15 Pro with TikTok and Cap Cut, a video-editing app owned by TikTok's Chinese parent company ByteDance, installed for more than $4.5 million.
—Jonathan Limehouse, USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2025
The latter gets 32 gigabytes of storage over 16 GB, and its lighting can automatically adjust to your surroundings.
—Brenda Stolyar, WIRED, 22 Nov. 2024
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John Kang, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
While many developers at the time settled for simple beeps and boops, Williams coaxed naturalistic environmental sounds from the silicon that modern audio designers, working with gigabytes of sampled audio, would still appreciate.
—ArsTechnica, 1 Apr. 2025
One eBay seller in Raleigh, North Carolina even listed a 128 gigabyte iPhone 15 Pro with TikTok and Cap Cut, a video-editing app owned by TikTok's Chinese parent company ByteDance, installed for more than $4.5 million.
—Jonathan Limehouse, USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2025
The latter gets 32 gigabytes of storage over 16 GB, and its lighting can automatically adjust to your surroundings.
—Brenda Stolyar, WIRED, 22 Nov. 2024
See All Example Sentences for gigabyte
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gigabyte
noun
giga·byte
-ˌbīt
: 1,073,741,824 bytes
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