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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, Editor in Chief

Mon 24 Aug 2015 // 23:50 UTC

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

Sonoma's memory configuration

The new chip's IO links to the outside world

Next page: Sonoma's knobs and buttons to tune its power gobbling

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