The author David Yen spent 20 years at Sun Microsystems, Inc.
As head of Sun\'s Microelectronics group in 2001, he turned around Sun\'s declining SPARC microprocessor business, introducing the industry\'s first 8-core, 32-thread general-purpose processor in 2005 and developing it into a multi-billion dollar busi.
In the 1990s, he led the development of Sun\'s first- and second-generation multi-CPU SMP servers, which transformed Sun from a workstation company to a leading enterprise server company.
The author David Yen spent 20 years at Sun Microsystems, Inc