Aman Joshi

Aman Joshi has been involved with Niagara project the very day he joined Sun, in 2002, to help integrate the Afara team. His involvement has been from the EDA/CAD tools side. For him it has been a wonderful team to work with since everyone is so focused on quality & delivering results - like a "start up" within the company.

Aman started his career at Intel, and was involved with the first Pentium processor. He later teamed up on RISC processors (MIPS & PowerPC) and continued on to manage & direct high-end graphics processors (Nvidia/3dfx), media processors (Pixel Works/Equator) and high throughput networking processors (Cisco/Procket Networks).

In his "spare time" he (and his family "team") farm grapes and make wine, a process requiring as much patience (or more?), as developing semiconductor chips!

He see the OpenSPARC project as a critical turning point for the industry. He expects it to break barriers in hardware design and create a transparent environment for some of the most innovative work. As the point person for our initial beta program, he has been able to get a peek at some of the ideas that are already cooking. Collaboration around these great minds will be exciting!