BYTE

Before discussing what a byte is, you must know what a ‘bit’ is. A bit is a unit, that at all times, has one of two possible values. The two values are ‘on’ and ‘off’. Computer programmers use the numbers 0 and 1 to represent these two values. 0 stands for ‘off’, and 1 stands for ‘on’. Thus, a bit that is off has the value o and a bits froms a bits are grouped into bytes to separate one piece of information from the next. Bytes are used to measure the amount of information a device can store. 

Integrated Circuit from a Microchip.