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Sun Microsystems has unveiled a new project, OpenSPARC, to open up its UltraSPARC design. Unlike previous CPUs that were based on the "Open" SPARC specifications (such as LEON), Sun is releasing the complete Verilog source code to their latest and greatest microprocessor. Their current time frame for releasing the source code to the public is in March of 2006. The move follows other initiatives to open up chip designs, and is patterned on the open-source drive that brought the Linux operating system to the computing world.

More details of the program will be released later, but McNealy said the hope is that greater innovation around the processor will help drive adoption and will add to the research and development that Sun engineers already are conducting.