Its distinguishing feature from earlier SPARC iterations is the introduction of chip multithreading (CMT) technology, a multithreading, multicore design intended to drive greater processor utilization at lower power consumption.
[4][5] In September 2010, Oracle announced a range of SPARC T3 processor based servers.
DAX engines offloaded in-memory query processing and performed real-time data decompression.
On September 18, 2017, Oracle announced a family of systems built on the 32-core, 256-thread SPARC M8 microprocessor at 5.0 GHz.
SPARC T-series servers can be partitioned using Oracle's Logical Domains technology.