The 24-Core POWER9 Processor With Adaptive Clocking, 25-Gb/s Accelerator Links, and 16-Gb/s PCIe Gen4.

The POWER9TM family of chips is fabricated in 14-nm silicon-on-insulator finFET technology using 17 levels of copper interconnect. The 695-mm2 24-core microprocessor features a new core based on an execution slice microarchitecture. The chip contains 8 billion transistors and has 120 MB of eDRAM L3 cache. The processor features an adaptive clock strategy to reduce timing margin needed during power...