[ Thanks to Jasen Crowl for this link.
]
“The success Sun Microsystems has seen from publishing the
hardware designs of its Niagara processor is pushing the server and
software company to continue its open source chip initiative, and
release the source codes of its latest ‘Niagara 2’ processor.“Speaking to reporters during a conference call last week, David
Yen, executive vice president of Sun’s scalable systems group,
revealed that there has been more than 5,500 downloads of the
OpenSparc T1 source code since its UltraSparc T1 Niagara processor
was made open source in March last year…”