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Sun UltraSPARC III

The Sun UltraSPARC III, introduced by Sun Microsystems in 2001, was a high-performance microprocessor designed for use in servers and workstations. It featured clock speeds ranging from 600 MHz to 900 MHz. The UltraSPARC III was based on the SPARC V9 architecture and was manufactured using a 0.18-micron CMOS process. It incorporated advanced features such as out-of-order execution, multiple execution units, and a large on-chip cache. The UltraSPARC III was used in Sun's Sun Fire servers and Sun Blade workstations, offering significant computational power for enterprise-level applications and scientific computing. Despite facing stiff competition from other architectures like Intel's Itanium and IBM's POWER, the UltraSPARC III maintained Sun's presence in the high-performance computing market and contributed to the company's reputation for reliable and scalable server solutions.