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Knights Ferry µarch
General Info
Arch TypeCPU
DesignerIntel
ManufacturerIntel
IntroductionDecember 2009
Process45 nm
Core Configs48
Instructions
ISAx86
ExtensionsL1OM
Succession

Rock Creek or the Single-Chip Cloud Computer (SCC) was the successor to Polaris, a 45 nm many-core microarchitecture designed by intel for high performance computing. The SCC, like Polaris, was a research project from Intel's Tera-scale Computing Research Program.

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Die

  • 45 nm process
  • 1 poly, 9 Metal (Cu)
  • 1,300,000,000 transistors
  • 26.5 mm x 21.4 mm
    • 567.1 mm² die size
  • 1,567 pins LGA packages
    • 970 signal pins
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Tile

    • 48,000,000 transistors
  • 3.6 mm x 5.2 mm
    • 18.7 mm² silicon area
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Additional Shots

Additional die and wafer shots provided by Intel:

Bibliography

Documents

codenameKnights Ferry +
core count48 +
designerIntel +
first launchedDecember 2009 +
full page nameintel/microarchitectures/rock creek +
instance ofmicroarchitecture +
instruction set architecturex86 +
manufacturerIntel +
microarchitecture typeCPU +
nameKnights Ferry +
process45 nm (0.045 μm, 4.5e-5 mm) +