Mebibit

Multiples of bits
Decimal Value SI 1000 103 kbit kilobit 10002 106 Mbit megabit 10003 109 Gbit gigabit 10004 1012 Tbit terabit 10005 1015 Pbit petabit 10006 1018 Ebit exabit 10007 1021 Zbit zettabit 10008 1024 Ybit yottabit	Binary Value IEC JEDEC 1024 210 Kibit kibibit Kbit kilobit 10242 220 Mibit mebibit Mbit megabit 10243 230 Gibit gibibit Gbit gigabit 10244 240 Tibit tebibit - 10245 250 Pibit pebibit - 10246 260 Eibit exbibit - 10247 270 Zibit zebibit - 10248 280 Yibit yobibit -
See also Nibble Byte Orders of magnitude of data

The mebibit is a multiple of the bit, a unit of information, prefixed by the standards-based multiplier "mebi" (symbol Mi), a binary prefix meaning 2²⁰. The unit symbol of the mebibit is Mibit.

1 mebibit = 2²⁰ bits = 1048576bits = 1024 kibibits

This unit is most useful for measuring RAM and ROM chip capacity.

The mebibit is closely related to the megabit which equals 10⁶ bits = 1,000,000 bits.

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, video game manufacturers sometimes reported the amount of internal cartridge read-only memory (ROM) on packaging in megabits, where 1 megabit equaled 128 kibibyte and 8 megabits were 1 mebibyte of ROM, containing game instructions and data.

See also

• Mebibyte
• Mebibit per second