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s studies he moved to the united states in 1975 with the help of a fulbright scholarship 6 and earned a master s degree in computer engineering from carnegie mellon university in 1976 in 1977 bechtolsheim moved to silicon valley after receiving an internship offer from justin rattner at intel 7 when rattner relocated to oregon bechtolsheim chose instead to enroll at stanford university as a ph d student in electrical engineering he left stanford five years later to pursue opportunities in the technology industry 4 8 career edit early sun workstation hardware at stanford bechtolsheim designed a powerful computer called a workstation with built in networking called the sun workstation a name derived from the initials for the stanford university network it was inspired by the xerox alto computer developed at the xerox palo alto research center bechtolsheim was a no fee consultant at xerox meaning he was not remunerated directly but had free access to the research being done there at the time lynn conway was using workstations to design very large scale integration vlsi circuits 4 bechtolsheim s advisor was forest baskett in 1980 vaughan pratt also provided leadership to the sun project support was provided by the computer science department and darpa the modular computer was used for research projects such as developing the v system and for early internet routers bechtolsheim tried to interest other companies in manufacturing the workstations but only got lukewarm responses 4 founding sun edit one of the companies building computers for vlsi design was daisy systems where vinod khosla worked at the time khosla had graduated a couple of years earlier from the stanford graduate school of business with scott mcnealy who managed manufacturing at onyx systems khosla mcnealy and bechtolsheim wrote a short business plan 9 and quickly received funding from venture capitalists in 1982 4 bechtolsheim left stanford to co found the company sun microsystems as employee number one with mcnealy and khosla and with bill joy who had been part of the team developing the bsd series of unix operating systems at uc berkeley bill is usually counted as the fourth member of the founding team for a while bechtolsheim and joy shared an apartment in palo alto california 4 sparcstation 1 designed c 1988 the first product the sun 1 included the stanford cpu board design with improved memory expansion and a sheet metal case by the end of the year the experimental ethernet interface designed by bechtolsheim was replaced by a commercial board from 3com 10 sun microsystems had its initial public offering in 1986 and reached 1 billion in sales by 1988 bechtolsheim formed a project code named unisun around this time to design a small inexpensive desktop computer for the educational market the result was the sparcstation 1 known as campus the start of another line of sun products 11 other companies edit in 1995 bechtolsheim left sun to found granite systems a gigabit ethernet startup focused on developing high speed network switches in 1996 cisco systems acquired the firm for 220 million with bechtolsheim owning 60 12 he became vice president and general manager of cisco s gigabit systems business unit until leaving the company in december 2003 to head kealia inc 13 bechtolsheim founded kealia in early 2001 with stanford professor david cheriton a partner in granite systems to work on advanced server technologies using the opteron processor from advanced micro devices in february 2004 sun microsystems announced it was acquiring kealia in a stock swap due to the acquisition bechtolsheim returned to sun again as senior vice president and chief architect 14 15 kealia hardware technology was used in the sun fire x4500 storage product 16 along with cheriton in 2005 bechtolsheim launched another high speed networking company arastra arastra later changed its name to arista networks bechtolsheim left sun microsystems to become the chairman and chief development officer of arista in october 2008 but stated he still was associated with sun in an advisory role 16 investments edit bechtolsheim and cheriton were two of the first investors in google investing us 100 000 each in september 1998 when he gave the check to larry page and sergey brin google s founders the company had not yet been legally incorporated claims that bechtolsheim coined the name google are untrue however he did motivate the founders to officially organize the company under that name 17 18 at the time of google s ipo this investment was worth at least 1 billion 19 as a result of investments like these bechtolsheim was seen as one of the most successful angel investors 20 particularly in areas such as electronic design automation eda which refers to the software used by people designing computer chips he has made a number of successful investments in eda in one such eda company magma design automation his stake was valued around 60 million citation needed he was an early investor in another eda start up company co design automation which developed systemverilog which is used to design almost all digital hardware citation needed bechtolsheim invested in tapulous the maker of music games for the apple iphone 21 tapulous was acquired by the walt disney company in 2010 22 he joined george t haber a former colleague at sun to invest in wireless chip company crestatech in 2006 and 2008 23 bechtolsheim invested in all of haber s previous startups citation needed compcore purchased by zoran gigapixel purchased by 3dfx and mobilygen purchased by maxim integrated products in 2008 as well as moovweb a cloud based interface for mobile and computer websites in 2009 24 he was reportedly an early investor in claria corporation which ceased operating in 2008 25 from 2015 to 2017 bechtolsheim invested in perimeterx an automated attack mitigation saas 26 awards edit bechtolsheim received a smithsonian leadership award for innovation in 1999 27 and a stanford entrepreneur company of the year award he was also elected a member of the national academy of engineering in 2000 for contributions to the design of computer workstations and high performance network switching bechtolsheim gave the opening keynote speech at the international supercomputing conference in 2009 28 in 2012 he was voted by it pros as the person who contributed most to server innovation in the last 20 years 29 sec settlement edit in 2024 bechtolsheim settled insider trading allegations with the united states securities and exchange commission sec in which he agreed to pay a civil penalty of nearly 1 million and is prohibited from serving as an officer or director of a public company for five years the sec accused him of misusing confidential knowledge of cisco s proposed acquisition of acacia communications stating that the illegal option trades netted over 400 000 in profits between his associate and relative to whom he passed the information 30 19 personal life edit despite living most of his life in the us bechtolsheim never attempted to acquire us citizenship he remains a german national 31 32 references edit andreas maria maximilian freiherr von mauchenheim genannt bechtolsheim mitbegründer von sun microsystems andreas maria maximilian freiherr von mauchenheim called bechtolsheim co founder of sun microsystems die reichsten 23 april 2014 archived from the original on 2018 09 24 andreas von bechtolsheim profile forbes com 14 december 2024 beise marc schäfer ulrich 11 august 2016 deutschland digital unsere antwort auf das silicon valley campus verlag isbn 978 3 593 50592 3 retrieved 24 january 2018 via google books 1 2 3 4 5 6 daniel s morrow 18 march 1999 andreas bechtolsheim william joy oral history pdf computerworld international archives archived from the original pdf on 22 july 2011 retrieved 11 april 2011 die milliarden karriere andreas von bechtolsheim bundessieger physik 1974 in german 2006 archived from the original on 19 july 2011 retrieved 12 april 2011 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server technology startup eweek retrieved 11 april 2011 1 2 chris preimesberger 23 october 2008 sun co founder bechtolsheim joins cloud computing startup eweek retrieved 11 april 2011 tony long 7 september 1998 if the check says google inc we re google inc wired archived from the original on 1 may 2011 retrieved 11 april 2011 google history about google company archived from the original on 1 april 2011 retrieved 11 april 2011 1 2 https www nytimes com 2024 04 23 technology andreas bechtolsheimin insider trading html andreas von bechtolsheim forbes 2006 archived from the original on 22 may 2011 retrieved 13 april 2011 jenna wortham 21 december 2008 music games for iphone give artists new spotlight the new york times retrieved 11 april 2011 andy fixmer and adam satariano 1 july 2010 disney buys tapulous maker of video games for ipads bloomberg businessweek archived from the original on july 5 2010 retrieved 11 april 2011 the programmable broadband company about us crestatech website retrieved 11 april 2011 bechtolsheim backed moovweb develops mobile sites and smartphone apps 4 november 2009 timothy l o brien and saul hansell 20 september 2004 barbarians at the digital gate the new york times retrieved 12 april 2011 daniel robert perimeterx providing defense against automated attacks launches anti bot service the pe hub network pe hub retrieved 8 august 2017 past leadership award recipients 1990 2008 computerworld information technology awards foundation 2008 archived from the original on 22 july 2011 retrieved 13 april 2011 an interview with isc 09 keynote speaker andy von bechtolsheim hpcwire 21 june 2009 archived from the original on 2009 07 27 retrieved 13 april 2011 tracie barnes it brand pulse networking innovation leader awards conferenceconcepts com retrieved 3 september 2017 roush ty 26 march 2024 billionaire andreas bechtolsheim charged with insider trading forbes von bechtolsheim i invested in google to solve my own problem deutsche welle retrieved 3 september 2017 moss j jennings 28 november 2018 arista s andy bechtolsheim carves deep impact tech career american city business journals further reading edit carolyn tajnai 1996 from the valley of heart s delight to the silicon valley a study of stanford university s role in the transformation pdf stanford university department of computer science retrieved 25 december 2023 mark hall john barry 1990 unburst the ascent of sun microsystems contemporary books isbn 978 0 8092 4368 6 external links edit odysseys in technology sun founders panel computer history museum 11 january 2006 archived from the original on 20 april 2011 retrieved 13 april 2011 sun display stanford university january 2001 archived from the original on 20 april 2011 retrieved 13 april 2011 andreas von bechtolsheim vom bodensee nach silicon valley stern de in german authority control databases international viaf gnd worldcat academics association for computing machinery dblp other snac v t e sun microsystems acquired 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