gigabyte
Americannoun
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gigabytes
plural
noun
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A unit of computer memory or data storage capacity equal to 1,024 megabytes (2 30 bytes).
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One billion bytes.
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Vocabulary lists containing gigabyte
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PrismML’s Bonsai 8B model reduces memory to 1 gigabyte, boosts processing speeds by eight times, and raised $16.25 million.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
This is a crucial piece to the puzzle, because production of one gigabyte of HBM supplants three gigabytes of other types of memory, worsening shortages down the line.
From Barron's ● Jan. 9, 2026
Pricing will be crucial in India, where mobile data is among the cheapest globally - just 12 cents per gigabyte, according to Modi.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2024
The company plans four tiers of service, with equal speeds for uploads and downloads: $65 a month for 500 Mbps, $75 for 1 gigabyte per second, $85 for 2 Gbps, and $99 for small-business connections.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2024
Why was Bobbie Lyles importing ridiculous amounts of data into her home, into her back bedroom, specifically; way more data than that crappy desktop dinosaur PC with its half a gigabyte of RAM could handle?
From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin
Digital data storage is measured in exabytes, which amount to about 1 billion gigabytes.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
A single gram can hold about 215 million gigabytes of data.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
Trillions of dollars are being spent on data centres to train and run AI models and provide cloud storage for humanity's zettabytes -- a unit equivalent to a trillion gigabytes -- of digital information.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
The littlest Mac has gone viral as a cost-effective way for AI power users to run local large language models that can eat up dozens of gigabytes of RAM, aka memory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
Trawling through gigabytes of data, he found hundreds of references to fairies from nearly every country in the world.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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