[shortsightedsid]

Sun didn't fab the Sparc themselves and therefore it's unlikey that Oracle will. AFAIK they were fabbed in companies like TI. Source: TI's annual report from 2007 http://investor.ti.com/secfiling.cfm?filingID=1193125-07-424...

Therefore, Intel's competitive advantage of running their own fabs could keep them ahead in the server space as well.

[fra]

TSMC fabs the SPARC chips. Source: I worked on the SPARC systems, but this info is a quick google search away.