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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Nvidia’s latest Blackwell comes with 192 gigabytes of RAM, or six times the amount that a powerful modern PC would need.
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Bloomberg Wire, Dallas Morning News, 16 Feb. 2026
Nvidia’s latest Blackwell comes with 192 gigabytes of RAM, or six times the amount that a powerful modern PC would need.
—Debby Wu, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2026
There was also a TikTok fan-edit contest for the pic, whereby participants could take gigabytes of hi-res footage and clips from the movie and create videos with their own artistry.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 13 Feb. 2026
Among the hundreds of gigabytes of material released by the Justice Department as part of the Epstein files are more than 2,000 videos, with hours of footage that had never before been made public.
—Kerry Breen, CBS News, 11 Feb. 2026
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Bloomberg Wire, Dallas Morning News, 16 Feb. 2026
Nvidia’s latest Blackwell comes with 192 gigabytes of RAM, or six times the amount that a powerful modern PC would need.
—Debby Wu, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2026
There was also a TikTok fan-edit contest for the pic, whereby participants could take gigabytes of hi-res footage and clips from the movie and create videos with their own artistry.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 13 Feb. 2026
Among the hundreds of gigabytes of material released by the Justice Department as part of the Epstein files are more than 2,000 videos, with hours of footage that had never before been made public.
—Kerry Breen, CBS News, 11 Feb. 2026
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gigabyte
noun
giga·byte
-ˌbīt
: 1,073,741,824 bytes
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