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At the behest of the Computing, a gigabyte is a unit of storage of information, which is equivalent to 109 bytes and is symbolized with the characters: GB.

Meanwhile, a byte It is the information storage unit that is made up of a sequence of contiguous bits. Although initially the number of bits varied, over time, the size of the bits was standardized. one byte in 8 bits, then, in the architecture of computers, 8 bits, are the addresses of memory or other data units that are up to 8 bits wide.
The byte has several multiples such as: kilobyte (1,000 bytes), megabyte (1,000,000 bytes), terabyte (1,000,000,000,000 bytes), and gigabyte (1,000,000,000 bytes).

As for the binary use of the gigabyte, it differs from the decimal use; the binary base is more common in the app of the concept for the design hardware and software. Although, on the other hand, the gigabyte is also used to measure the storage capacity and transmission in a computer system. For example, the capacity of computer hard drives, also called hard drives, is measured in gigabytes or gigabytes, as the storage unit is usually abbreviated in the language current.

It should be noted that although some confuse them and treat them as the same, gigabyte and gigabit are not, because a gigabit is 1/8 of a gigabyte, because it refers to bits and not bytes, being its symbol Gb or Gbit. Generally, gigabit is used to designate the transmission rate of a data stream, or failing that, to describe a bandwidth.

For its part, the company Gigabyte Technology is a Taiwanese company, founded in the year 1986 and that has become known worldwide for its specialization in the manufacturing hardware, motherboards or motherboards, power supplies and video cards.