basically vaporware. In the sense that almost nobody will see/touch it. Huge chip - 10B transistors - using new process node - 3D 16nm - will have such low yield that its obviously high price will be even higher. Thus only a handful of systems will be delivered. Thus practical non-existence equivalence.
SPARC CPU division brought down Sun, and i see it still puts a good fight inside Oracle despite Rock cancelation :)
Edit: even if the CPU become realistically (in the High Enterprise sense) available just imagine what [ram-to-cpu] bus should the CPU to sit on for it to be able to feed the beast, especially considering that it will be DB application, not HPC for example
The Hotchips slides explicitly mentioned 20nm. Based on a bad assumption, the author for this story decided to freely reinterpret '20nm' as 16FF. (There's a connection between the two, but that's mostly for pedants on internet forums)
SPARC CPU division brought down Sun, and i see it still puts a good fight inside Oracle despite Rock cancelation :)
Edit: even if the CPU become realistically (in the High Enterprise sense) available just imagine what [ram-to-cpu] bus should the CPU to sit on for it to be able to feed the beast, especially considering that it will be DB application, not HPC for example