How do you disrupt a billion dollar hardware industry? Open source it. That's just what Sun has been doing, rolling out their latest OpenSPARC T2 processor with an open source design available under the GPL. You can download the design, specs, documentation and related tools for their T2 processor, which has eight cores and a 64 thread processor. The T2 processor is essentially a server on a chip with multi-core How do you disrupt a billion dollar hardware industry? Open source it. That’s just what Sun has been doing, rolling out their latest OpenSPARC T2 processor with an open source design available under the GPL.You can download the design, specs, documentation and related tools for their T2 processor, which has eight cores and a 64 thread processor. The T2 processor is essentially a server on a chip with multi-core CPU as well as networking, security and I/O built in. Sun also announced that the processor design is being used in several major US engineering schools including University of Texas at Austin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (Go blue!) and local faves UC Santa Cruz (Go banana slugs!) While Sun has long been a proponent and supporter of open source, I don’t think they always get credit for the level of commitment that they have. And it’s not about open source altruism. The more open source is adopted, the more Sun benefits with it’s platform strategy and expanded demand for its products. More information is available at www.opensparc.net. Open Source