The Sun Blade 1000 system accommodates up to two superscalar, 64-bit, high-performance UltraSPARC™-III CPUs. It features a high-performance, crossbar-switch system interconnect that provides high bandwidth (up to 4 GB/sec.) . It also delivers plenty of internal disk and memory and a 64-bit PCI bus for incredibly fast I/O. The Sun Blade 1000 workstation provides both USB and IEEE1394 interfaces for connectivity to the leading edge in third-party peripherals

• to two 600-, 750-, or 900-MHz UltraSPARC-III CPUs
• to 8 GB of main memory and up to 72 GB of 10,000-rpm FC/AL disk storage
• Sun™ Creator3D, Sun™ Elite3D m6 and Sun Expert3D graphics technology
• IEEE 1394 ports for high-speed digital video transfers; USB ports for connecting USB devices
• Three removable media slots for choice of DVD-ROM, 4-mm tape, or floppy; smart-card reader
• Four industry-standard PCI slots
• Runs Solaris™ 8 Operating Environment; binary compatible with previous Solaris versions and entire workstation and server lines.