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Quicksilver - Microarchitectures - Ampere
| Edit Values | |
| Quicksilver µarch | |
| General Info | |
| Arch Type | CPU |
| Designer | Ampere Computing |
| Manufacturer | TSMC |
| Introduction | 2019 |
| Process | 7 nm |
| Pipeline | |
| Type | Superscalar |
| OoOE | Yes |
| Speculative | Yes |
| Reg Renaming | Yes |
| Instructions | |
| ISA | ARMv8.2 |
| Succession | |
Quicksilver is Ampere's successor to Skylark, a planned 7 nm ARM microarchitecture for servers.
Release Dates[edit]
Ampere Altra™ (Quicksilver) was announced on March 3rd, 2020 with Ampere™ stating that it had begun shipping to customers.
Technology[edit]
Quicksilver is fabricated on TSMC's 7 nm process.
Architecture[edit]
Key changes from Skylark[edit]
- 7 nm process (from 16 nm)
- Higher IPC
- Higher core count (80-core up from 32-core)
- ARMv8.2+ support (from ARMv8)
- Multi-socket support
- Faster memory (3200 MT/s from 2666 MT/s)
- PCIe 4.0 support (from 3.0)
- CCIX connectivity support
Facts about "Quicksilver - Microarchitectures - Ampere"
| codename | Quicksilver + |
| designer | Ampere Computing + |
| first launched | 2019 + |
| full page name | ampere computing/microarchitectures/quicksilver + |
| instance of | microarchitecture + |
| instruction set architecture | ARMv8.2 + |
| manufacturer | TSMC + |
| microarchitecture type | CPU + |
| name | Quicksilver + |
| process | 7 nm (0.007 μm, 7.0e-6 mm) + |