It minimizes the active power of the SRAM in certain conditions by monitoring the current consumption of the SRAM rest circuits.

ENGADGET: Toshiba mobile RAM uses prediction, adaptation to cut power use by up to 85 percent

This clearly points the way toward the first MRAM with the potential to surpass SRAM in practical operation.

ENGADGET: Toshiba goes perpendicular to solve MRAM's power issues, rethink cache memory

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO:6502) today announced the development of an innovative low-power technology for embedded SRAM for application in smart phones and other mobile products.

ENGADGET: Toshiba mobile RAM uses prediction, adaptation to cut power use by up to 85 percent

Under the hood there's a 240Mhz ARM processor, which has DSP and Java acceleration built in, and 16MB of SRAM, expandable to 128MB, giving the player enough juice to run Adobe Flash and Java apps with future firmware upgrades.

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However, improving the performance of SRAM to match advances in mobile products results in increasing current leakage, both during operation and in standby mode, degrading power performance.

ENGADGET: Toshiba goes perpendicular to solve MRAM's power issues, rethink cache memory