From Wikipedia: > As of September 2017, the latest commercial high-end SPARC processors are Fujitsu's SPARC64 XII (introduced in 2017 for its SPARC M12 server)

From Wikipedia: > As of September 2017, the latest commercial high-end SPARC processors are Fujitsu's SPARC64 XII (introduced in 2017 for its SPARC M12 server) and Oracle's SPARC M8 introduced in September 2017 for its high-end servers. > > On Friday, September 1, 2017, after a round of layoffs that started in Oracle Labs in November 2016, Oracle terminated SPARC design after the completion of the M8. Much of the processor core development group in Austin, Texas, was dismissed, as were the teams in Santa Clara, California, and Burlington, Massachusetts. SPARC development continues with Fujitsu returning to the role of leading provider of SPARC servers, with a new CPU due in the 2020 time frame. I don't think SPARC machines have been competitive in terms of (price / performance) or even just raw (performance / development time) in a long, long, long time. I imagine most of the market for SPARC machines are legacy customers who are continuing to build and maintain older codebases that have been running for a long time. --- POWER9 machines are pretty neat, but IIRC they compete somewhat with contemporary Xeons, which is to say that the difficulty / cost of obtaining said POWER9 system and developing optimized software for it is going to be a good bit higher, because IBM hasn't opened up that ecosystem enough and still prices those machines at remarkably high prices (so there's not a meaningful incentive for anyone to try bridging over to it as a new platform, with the exception of hyperscalers like Google who use it as a constant threat to negotiate prices with the like of Intel etc).