Marc Tremblay has a long history with microprocessor innovation at Sun. 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 also the chief architect for the MAJC Program, which was nominated for best emerging technology in 1999 and best media processor in 2000 by MDR Analysts. He also started and architected the picoJava processor core, a Java bytecode engine.

As a Sun Fellow, Vice President, and Chief Architect for Sun's Scalable Systems Group, Marc continues to set future directions for Sun's processor and system roadmap. His mission is to move the entire product line to the Throughput Computing paradigm, incorporating techniques he has helped develop, including; Chip Multiprocessing, Chip Multithreading, speculative multithreading, and assist threading.

Dr. Tremblay holds a M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA and a B.S. in Physics Engineering from Laval University in Canada. He holds over 100 US patents in various areas of computer architecture. Marc was nominated for Innovator of the year by EDN Magazine in 1999. Tremblay is a member of IEEE and ACM.