Reduced role for Sun co-founder Bechtolsheim
News Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim is shifting to a reduced role at the Silicon Valley stalwart as he turns his attention to getting yet another start-up off the ground. The company's PR team quickly responded by saying there were a "few inaccurate...
[October 24, 2008, 12:53]
Sun co-founder returns to fold
News Nine years after leaving the server maker he co-founded in 1982, Andy Bechtolsheim is returning to Sun Microsystems. At Sun, Bechtolsheim will pick up where he left off: designing computers. Although Bechtolsheim co-founded Kealia in 2001, he didn...
[February 18, 2004, 10:55]
Sun dismisses HyperTransport
News We're interested in industry-standard interfaces," said Andy Bechtolsheim, a Sun engineer and co-founder whose Kealia products became the foundation of Sun's Galaxy line of x86 servers. Some Taiwanese motherboard makers will make changes to sell a...
[February 28, 2006, 9:55]
Tales of the rising Sun
News McNealy joined Sun's other co-founders, Vinod Khosla, Andy Bechtolsheim and Bill Joy, at a panel discussion at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, to reminisce about the server specialist's past and prognosticate about the...
[January 16, 2006, 12:10]
Opteron hoping to light up Sun's Galaxy
News Sun plans to announce on 12 September its "Galaxy" line of AMD Opteron-based servers, a product family developed by hardware guru Andy Bechtolsheim that's a central part of the company's recovery plan.
[September 5, 2005, 8:30]
Sun acquires firm employing its co-founder
News Sun Microsystems has agreed to acquire Kealia, a start-up that designs servers with Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron processor and that employs Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim. We have been working on a bunch of next-generation Opteron servers that...
[February 11, 2004, 7:50]
Sun seeks supercomputing glory
News We are looking at a factor-of-three improvement over the current best system at an equal number of nodes," said Andy Bechtolsheim, chief architect and senior vice president of the systems group at Sun.
[June 26, 2007, 9:47]
HP starts selling four-Opteron server
News Last week Sun completed the acquisition of Kealia, a start-up launched by Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim that specialises in Opteron servers. Bechtolsheim is reclaiming his employee No.badge at Sun as well as the title of senior vice president...
[April 20, 2004, 8:55]
Scott McNealy still busy at Sun
News McNealy, who co-founded Sun with Andy Bechtolsheim, Vinod Khosla and Bill Joy in 1982, grew the company to a peak market capitalisation of $200bn in 2000 during the dot-com boom. Scott McNealy, the outspoken Sun co-founder who led the company as...
[October 18, 2007, 16:40]
Sun packs four Opterons into a server
News It acquired Opteron specialist Kealia earlier this year, a move that brought Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim back into the fold. Sun Microsystems on Monday will launch a server with four Opteron processors, sources said, the latest step in the...
[July 23, 2004, 8:45]
Stanford, tech execs unveil science centre
News McNealy, who founded Sun with Andy Bechtolsheim while barely out of Stanford, said during the ceremony that one of Sun's goals is to "eliminate the digital divide without torching the planet". Stanford University opened the doors on Tuesday to a...
[June 21, 2006, 11:00]
Sun loses software head to Adobe
News Other returned execs at Sun include co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim, now a top designer of the Galaxy line of x86 servers; chief financial officer Mike Lehman, who came out of retirement; Tom Goguen, the vice president of operating platforms products...
[March 17, 2006, 8:15]
Intel unveils twinned connections
News But Sun's head x86 server engineer, Andy Bechtolsheim, endorsed Geneseo in a presentation at the show. From the standpoint of accelerators, the broadest market potential is ultimately going to be PCI slots," Bechtolsheim said.
[September 28, 2006, 9:44]
Google launches 10th-anniversary site
News The anniversary site offers a timeline that spotlights historical moments such as Andy Bechtolsheim's $100,000 (£54,000) spur-of-the-moment investment in 1998; the date in 2000 when Google reached one billion pages in its index of the web; the...
[September 24, 2008, 10:11]
Best quote of the conference so far
Blog Comment Panel Session - Industry Perspectives, with Lee Gomes (Wall Street Journal), Marc Andreessen (Opsware), Andy Bechtolsheim (Sun Microsystems) and David Cheriton (Stanford University) http://www.vmworld.com/webcast is the link for the video of the...
[November 8, 2006, 8:37]
Chipmakers aim to unclog data paths
News The fundamental limitation of CPUs is no longer [core] performance but I/O [input/output]," Andy Bechtolsheim said in a presentation to reporters in June on Sun's efforts in supercomputing. If you are going to build processors with large numbers of...
[August 20, 2007, 11:01]
Are storage-server hybrids the future?
News But Sun is bullish about the idea, and.its respected x86 server engineer, Andy Bechtolsheim, built a start-up called Kealia around the approach. But some industry heavyweights have begun seeing things a little differently.
[July 27, 2006, 9:55]
Sun and Intel pair up on Xeon-based servers
News For example, Andy Bechtolsheim, Sun's top x86 server designer, made an appearance at the Intel Developer Forum in September. Sun is expected to resume its use of Intel's Xeon processors in its x86 servers, according to sources familiar with the...
[January 22, 2007, 7:55]
More quotes from VMWorld
Blog Andy Bechtolsheim, Founder, Sun Microsystems, answering a question on whether the extreme enthusiasm about virtualization would lead to cult-like devotion. "I've walked the floor and I'm not feeling a lot of love", Tim Sills, consulting manager and...
[November 9, 2006, 0:39]
