Sun's in the news with a couple of items today: not only have they taped out their next generationSparc processor, the "Rock," they're also designing a 10G ethernet chip (Neptune) for use in their next generation of servers.

"Neptune will be used broadly in Sun's Sparc and X86 systems. The chip is also being built into its next-generation multi-core processors, including the Niagara-2 announced at last year's Hot Chip's conference."