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Marc Tremblay is currently CTO for Sun's Microelectronics business unit where he sets the direction for Sun's processor roadmap and related technology. His mission is to move Sun's entire product line to the Throughput Computing paradigm, incorporating techniques he has helped develop--including chip multiprocessing, chip multithreading, speculative multithreading, assist threading and transactional memory.
Tremblay's latest endeavor is Sun's Project ROCK, a third generation chip multithreading processor due out in 2008. He has worked on multithreaded and multicore processors for more than 12 years.
Prior to becoming CTO, he was co-architect for Sun's UltraSPARC I, the MDR Microprocessor of the Year in 1995, and chief architect for the UltraSPARC II microprocessor. He was chief architect for Sun's MAJC program, which was nominated for best emerging technology in 1999 and best media processor in 2000 by MDR Analysts. Tremblay also architected the picoJava processor core, a Java bytecode engine, whose components can be found in mobile phones and smart cards worldwide.
Tremblay holds a master's degree and doctorate in computer science from UCLA and a bachelor's in physics engineering from Laval University in Canada. He holds more than 120 U.S. patents in various aspects of computer architecture.
Tremblay was nominated for Innovator of the Year by EDN Magazine in 1999. He was co-chair of the Hot Chips 2000 conference, delivered the keynote address for the 31st Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA 2004) in Munich, Germany, and recently delivered the keynote address at the International Computer Symposium (ICS) 2006 in Australia.
Tremblay taught a graduate course on computer architecture at Stanford in 2002. He is a member of IEEE and ACM.
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