Why does 12gb not exist?

mrmez

Splendid
And if we had 3Gb sticks, you'd ask "why don't 4Gb sticks exist"
;)

There's not really a technical reason, it's pretty much just the number they picked.

8 bits/byte, everything grew in multiples of 8.
Skipping a few steps...
8, 64, 512, 4096...