3.6GHz 16-core SPARC SoC processor in 28nm
J. Hart, S. Butler, Hoyeol Cho, Yuefei Ge, Gregory Gruber, Dawei Huang, Changku Hwang, D. Jian, T. Johnson, G. Konstadinidis, L. Kwong, R. Masleid, U. Nawathe, Aparna Ramachandran, Yongning Sheng, J. L. Shin, S. Turullois, Qin Zuxu, King Yen · 2013
The Oracle SPARC T5 [1] processor introduces significant new capabilities in performance, scalability, multi-socket interconnect, power efficiency, and I/O compared to prior CPU generations [2–6]. T5 multiplies T4 [2, 3] performance by doubling the number of core pipes and making a number of architectural improvements in the SoC. A core frequency of 3.6GHz is achieved with enhancements in circuit design, power distribution and clocking coupled with TSMC's 28nm triple-Vtprocess. T5 contains 1.5 billion transistors and 13 metal layers.