The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word GIGABYTE
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What does GIGABYTE mean?
GIGABYTE noun- (SI) 109, one billion (1,000,000,000) bytes. SI symbol: GB
- A gibibyte or 10243 (1,073,741,824) bytes.