Slashdot | Sun Open-Sourcing UltraSPARC Design

This is pretty ultra-cool news. Especially in academic circles and for upcoming chip designers.

I’m sure that there’s decent business models in place so that they don’t cannibalise their hardware sales.

What would be very cool is if cheap manufactures pick up slightly older chip generations and produce them for dirt-cheap prices. This means more commodity hardware – which is very good for humanity.

It also makes it possible to run an even more open platform where even the source to your CPU is available!