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A '''kibibyte''' ('''KiB'''), derived from ''[[wikipedia:kilo-|kilo]]-[[binary]]'', is a unit of digital information storage equal to 1024 [[bytes]]. This is in contrast to a [[kilobyte]], meaning 1000 bytes.
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A '''kibibyte''' ('''KiB'''), derived from ''[[wikipedia:kilo-|kilo]]-[[binary]]-byte'', is a unit of digital information storage equal to 1024 [[bytes]]. This is in contrast to a [[kilobyte]], meaning 1000 bytes. The unit was established by the [[International Electrotechnical Commission]] in [[1998]] to differentiate units in base 10 from units in base 2. IEC formally added it to {{iec|60027-2|IEC 60027-2}} which was later superseded by {{iec|80000-13|IEC 80000-13}}.
  
  
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The unit was established by the [[International Electrotechnical Commission]] in [[1998]] to differentiate units in base 10 from units in base 2.
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== Examples ==
 
== Examples ==

Revision as of 19:12, 18 September 2016

A kibibyte (KiB), derived from kilo-binary-byte, is a unit of digital information storage equal to 1024 bytes. This is in contrast to a kilobyte, meaning 1000 bytes. The unit was established by the International Electrotechnical Commission in 1998 to differentiate units in base 10 from units in base 2. IEC formally added it to IEC 60027-2 which was later superseded by IEC 80000-13.


Equation 1 KiB equals 2 Superscript 10 Baseline bytes equals 1024 bytes equals 8192 bits



Examples

  • A typical L1I$ and L1D$ is between 8 and 64 KiB. For example, AMD's K5 had 16 KiB L1 instruction cache and 8 KiB data cache.
  • A typical L2$ is between 64 and 512 KiB. For example Intel's Haswell had 256 KiB of L2 cache.
  • A 16-bit CPU cannot directly address more than 64 KiB.
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