Taiwan Economic News is reporting that TI will be farming out the manufacturing of all of its sub-45nm chips to TSMC; including Sun's SPARC processors. Moving to fabless, perhaps? If Sun's chips are going to be made by TSMC anyway, why involve TI in the first place?

"TI decided to enhance collaboration with foundries since announcing it would not independently develop process technologies below 45nm node last year. Since then, the chipmaker has increased contracts for 90nm and 65nm chips to TSMC and UMC and begun co-developing 45nm process technology."