Kibibyte - Definition and Overview

According to the International Electrotechnical Commission a kibibyte (a contraction of kilo binary byte) is a unit of information or computer storage. It is abbreviated KiB.

1 kibibyte = 2¹⁰ bytes = 1 024 bytes

1 kibibyte = 8 kibibits

byte << kibibyte << mebibyte

The kibibyte is closely related to the kilobyte (kB), which is almost always used as a synonym for kibibyte, but can also refer to 10³ bytes = 1 000 bytes in some contexts.

See also

• Binary prefix