What happens when our universities encourage and equip
students to innovate? They nurture our brightest individuals and allow exciting
new breakthroughs to occur. For these important reasons, we invited professors
and students from engineering faculties to our Niagara
2 launch.
Aside from commenting that our CEO Jonathan Schwartz is a very
charismatic leader, students said our Niagara
2 processor is "really cool". They, and their professors, were excited
to join us to witness the launch of the world’s fastest microprocessor. Many of
them already use Sun’s products for their research projects. Sun has deep roots
in education. Our company name stands for “Stanford University Network” as three
of our founders--Andy Bechtolsheim, Vinod Khosla and Scott McNealy--are Stanford alumni.
And yes, today’s Stanford students were pleased to have a photo
opportunity with Jonathan.
From left: Thierry Uwilingiyimana, Michael Dalton, Jonathan Schwartz, Megan Wachs, Ofer Shacham
Following the launch, I took a group of students from San Francisco State University
on a tour of our campus. These are all very bright Masters of Engineering students
who will soon be graduating and joining the workforce. They are the driving
force of our future. I wish them all the very best.
From left: Abhishek Sharma, Akili Anderson, Dr. David Yen, Professor Ying Chen, Chi Hai, and Rohit Nayak.