The growing popularity of different Web- services stimulate the processors producers to create the special solutions for this market segment, which place processors with high density, and in this case economize the electric power. As an example of similar initiative can serve the recent announcement of processors AMD opteron 41xx.
Before the absorption by oracle company the well-known producer sun microsystems attempted to develop its own economical server processor with the x86- compatible architecture. It is known that thus far sun counted on its own architecture: the processors ultraSPARC.
According to associate, for the realization of this plan sun acquired montalvo systems company, and it also engaged engineers from AMD.