A source of confusion is that memory chips are specified in number of bits capacity, not bytes capacity. The first DRAM chips where 1-bit oriented; i.e. read an

A source of confusion is that memory chips are specified in number of bits capacity, not bytes capacity. The first DRAM chips where 1-bit oriented; i.e. read and write were 1-bit at a time. Then you stacked for example 8 chips in parrallel for a byte oriented architechture, etc. 8 16Kb chips for 16KB memory.