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==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=245β249}}</ref> The following organizations have licensed the SPARC architecture<!--Not SPARC implementations-->: {{div col}} * [[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]] {{div col end}}
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