John Fowler, executive vice president of Sun's server division, confirmed the development in an interview here Tuesday and suggested it will continue Sun's push to squeeze more processing cores onto the chip. This new member of the Sparc family will be built using a manufacturing process with 45-nanometer circuitry elements, he said.
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