The engine of the early web. If you visited a website in 1998, it was likely served by a Sun Microsystems server running this exact processor. The UltraSPARC II was a 64-bit RISC beast that scaled incredibly well, allowing Sun to sell purple servers for the price of Ferraris.
Visually, it is a stunner, featuring a gold cap and a distinctively large die spreader. It represents the era when "Big Iron" Unix servers ruled the data center, before cheap Linux x86 boxes took over the world. It smells like venture capital and Java applets.
