Toshiba has confirmed the performance of the new STT-MRAM memory element with a highly accurate processor simulator.

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

Toshiba's new memory element advances the company's pioneering work in STT-MRAM and overcomes the longstanding operating trade-off by securing improved speed while reducing power consumption by 90 percent.

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

Going forward Toshiba expects to bring the new memory element to STT-MRAM cache memory for mobile processors integrated into smartphones and tablet PCs, and will promote accelerated research and development toward that end.

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

TOKYO-Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO: 6502) today announced that the company has developed a prototype memory element for a spin transfer torque magnetoresistive random access memory (STT-MRAM) that achieves the world's lowest1 power consumption yet reported, indicating that it has the potential to surpass the power consumption efficiency of SRAM as cache memory.

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

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Instead of a traditional key stored in the secure element's memory, every single copy of this chip carries a unique fingerprint within the physical structure of its transistors.

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