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Blueprints revealed: Oracle crams Sparc M7 and InfiniBand into cheaper 'Sonoma' chips

Reg gets its hands on Big Red's designs

Chris Williams

Mon 24 Aug 2015 // 23:50 UTC

Oracle's slides: The base specs of Sonoma

How it compares to its bigger sister, the M7

Sonoma's 4th-gen Sparc brains match the M7 – plus the crypto-unit

Next page: How the new chip's caches are arranged, smaller than the M7 due to fewer cores, it seems

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