Chips & compute · 4 November 2026
Toyota unveils 16nm SoC with STT‑MRAM that boots in 65.7 ms
Toyota, via its AISIN partner, built a 16nm FinFET SoC with an Arm Cortex‑A53 dual‑core CPU, Mali‑G31 GPU and integrated STT‑MRAM that stores model weights and the OS, achieving a 65.7 ms power‑on to kernel startup—38× faster than using external memory—and running Tiny YOLOv3.
Benchmarks are the company's own; not independently verified.
Why it matters
Toyota’s STT‑MRAM SoC boots kernel in 65.7 ms, 38× faster than external memory; align your vehicle AI latency targets accordingly.
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