Editing SPARC (section)

==SPARC architecture licensees==
[[Intel]] was the [[80386]]'s only producer, which made it very expensive and caused the industry to be wary of [[sole source]]d CPUs. When Sun announced SPARC in 1987, the company stated that it would be available from multiple sources. Fujitsu was the first SPARC vendor, and Cypress Semiconductor was the second licensee; {{as of|1989|02|lc=y}} their SPARC CPUs were available, as was Texas Instruments's FPU.<ref name="byte198902">{{Cite magazine |last=Marshall |first=Trevor |last2=Tazelaar |first2=Jane Morrill |date=February 1989 |title=Worth the RISC |url=https://archive.org/details/eu_BYTE-1989-02_OCR/page/n299/mode/2up?view=theater |access-date=2024-10-08 |magazine=[[Byte (magazine)|BYTE]] |publisher=[[McGraw-Hill]] |pages=245–249}}</ref> The following organizations have licensed the SPARC architecture<!--Not SPARC implementations-->:

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* [[Afara Websystems]]
* [[Bipolar Integrated Technology]] (BIT){{r|byte198902}}
* [[Cypress Semiconductor]]{{r|byte198902}}
* [[European Space Research and Technology Center]] (ESTEC)
* [[Fujitsu]]{{r|byte198902}} (and its Fujitsu Microelectronics subsidiary)
* [[Gaisler Research]]
* [[HAL Computer Systems]]
* [[Hyundai Group|Hyundai]]
* [[LSI Logic]]{{r|byte198902}}
* [[Harris Corporation|Matra Harris Semiconductors]] (MHS)
* [[Panasonic|Matsushita Electrical Industrial Co.]]
* [[Meiko Scientific]]
* [[Metaflow Technologies]]
* [[Philips Electronics]]
* Prisma
* [[Ross Technology]]
* [[Solbourne Computer]]
* Systems & Processes Engineering Corporation (SPEC)
* TEMIC
* [[Texas Instruments]]{{r|byte198902}}
* [[Weitek]]
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