Software-in-Silicon Drives Oracle SPARC M7 Processors

Wikibon concludes that the Intel x86 architecture has currently reached a performance limit in terms of cycle time and usable cores. Wikibon also concludes that for workloads that need to be optimized for performance, the processor and software need to be designed together using Software-in-Silicon to drive performance. Wikibon believes that the M7 processor technology is the start of a significant journey by Oracle to improve the performance and security of Oracle databases systems, and will be a key component of its development of True Private Clouds systems, and systems that support cloud service providers.