internetnews.com: Sun Opens Design to New T1 Chip

"Sun Microsystems extended its open source policy to silicon, pledging to open up the architecture to its new UltraSparc T1 multi-core processor.

"Sun CEO Scott McNealy said during a press event here that Sun created the OpenSPARC project to foster greater adoption of computer systems based on the T1 architecture.

"OpenSparc was created in support of the company's unveiling of the first two servers based on the new T1 chip, the T1000 and T2000, which are geared for powering Web applications..."

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