Known better for making GPUs for the likes of Nvidia and AMD/ATI, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company aka TSMC will kick off some serious CPU manufacturing next year as it will be supplying Sun Microsystems servers with Rainbow Falls processors.

Designed by Sun, the Rainbow Falls chips will be made using 40nm process technology and feature 16 cores, 128 threads and no L3 cache, at least not in its first iteration. The upcoming CPUs will target web servers and are expected to bring in quite a bit of cash into TSMC's coffers.