As a Stanford University graduate student in 1981, he designed computer workstation that helped create Sun Microsystems Inc. and a multibillion-dollar industry. Seventeen years later, two other Stanford graduate students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, approached Mr. Bechtolsheim about an idea for a Web search engine. His $100,000 check helped bankroll Google Inc., an investment now valued at about $670 million following a 7% jump in that company's stock yesterday.
Now, after stints at Cisco Systems Inc. and two start-up companies, the legendary hardware designer is back at Sun pursuing another big idea -- one that could create wrenching changes for the industry as well as provide growth opportunities. "Billions of dollars of dislocation is going to happen," Mr. Bechtolsheim predicts.
The cause: technology advances that allow the same basic chip technology used in personal computers to power the very largest systems, too."
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