Sun was never in the x86 market... it was just a sort of 'oh, it also runs on'. It was never big in Sun. The x86 hardware is enough of a hodge-podge mess, and ancient, unworkable crap that this is a natural market to work away from even without open source to put a Unix-alike on it. In all, it's a blessing to Sun to not be on x86 hardware. It allows focus to remain on properly built hardware.
Actually that is not entirely true. Sun first got in to the x86 market with some hardware believe it or not. They made an x86 line of workstations with a 80386 processors (386i/150 and 386i/250) and even a few 486's right before ditching the x86 line of workstations. This was around the time when Sun was still using Motorola 68020 and 68030 processors for their Sun-3 line. See more about this in the Sun Hardware Reference [sunhelp.org].
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