Marc Tremblay is a distinguished engineer at
Microsoft. Prior to joining Microsoft in April 2009, he was senior vice president and chief technology officer of the microelectronics business unit at
Sun Microsystems. He was instrumental in the design of various microprocessors at Sun, including the
UltraSPARC,
UltraSPARC II,
MAJC,
UltraSPARC T1, and the cancelled
Rock processor. In the process, he has been awarded more patents than any other Sun employee.