Oracle's Sparc T4 chip: Will you pay Larry's premium?

The Register has a item about the new Sparc T4 processor from now Oracle. You almost forget that Oracle bought the hardware section of Sun too. The new chip is a nice piece of shiny hardware with a lot performance measures added. And it pays off: with half the threads and cores it is five times faster then it 's predecessor the Sparc T3 on Specint 2000. There are also some features added which are supposed to speed up Oracle's database transactions. But to succeed the more decisive point will be it's price/performance ratio. Sun has never been cheap and Oracle is not likely to change that either so it will come from the added value, if any.