"Father of The Pentium processor"
Vinod Dham is popularly known as the father of the Pentium processor. Born in 1950 in Pune, he had his initial schooling in Pune. He did his Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from Delhi College of Engineering in 1971. Thereafter he had a brief stint with Continental Devices, a Delhi based semiconductor company.
In 1975, Vinod Dham went to the US and did his Masters in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati. After completing his Masters in 1977, Vinod Dham joined the National Cash Register (NCR) at Dayton, Ohio. Vinod was a team member of the NCR's memory design group. He received many patents for his work at NCR.
While making a presentation at the IEEE conference in Monterrey, California on re-programmable memory, Vinod Dham received an offer from the Intel to work with them. In January 1990, Vinod was in-charge of developing the 586 or Pentium processor. He worked relentlessly on the project and the Pentium processor was a big hit in the market. Vinod Dham rose up the corporate ladder and reached the position of the Vice President of the Intel's Microprocessor Products Group. He quit Intel in 1995.
Thereafter, Vinod joined NexGen, a start-up firm as Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President.. When Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) acquired NexGen in 1996, Vinod Dham looked after the development of AMD's famous K6 Processor, world's fastest personal computer microprocessor. Later on he quit AMD.
Vinod Dham is an inventor, entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He is a mentor, advisor and investor; and sits on the boards of many companies including promising startups funded through his India based fund – Indo US Venture Partners, where he is the founding Managing Director.
Presently, Vinod Dham is the chairman, president and chief executive officer of Silicon Spice, a communications technology development firm
Vinod has made great contribution to the development of highly successful Pentium Processors from Intel. At the age of 25, he left his family in New Delhi to get a graduate degree in the U.S., arriving with just $8 in his pocket and today he is the richest investor in siliconvalley.The best thing that happened to me was joining Intel and the best thing that happened to me was leaving Intel,” says Dham in one of his vapid sound bites that make him so popular with journalists.An inventor, entrepreneur and venture capitalist, he is popularly known as the Father of the Pentium chip, for his contribution to the development of highly successful Pentium Processors from Intel. He is a mentor, advisor and investor; and sits on the boards of many companies including promising startups funded through his India based fund – Indo US Venture Partners, where he is the founding Managing Director.Dham was the only student in his class who had worked longest in semi conductors. In 1995, at the age of 45, after spending 16 years at Intel and reaching the top management of the company, Dham had a “mid-¬life crisis” and was itching to do something different. He believed if you live in Silicon Valley and have not experienced life as an entrepreneur in a world of startups, you have missed out on a very exciting learning experience
Celebrated With:
1993: Top 25 executives in the US computer industry.
1999: Top 100 most influential Asian Americans of the decade.
2000: he was appointed to serve on the President’s advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders by President Clinton.
He was profiled by India Abroad in 7 June’ among 50 Most Influential Indian Americans.
Dham was awarded the NRI Achievement Award at the NRI Global Summit in Oct 2009 by the NRI institute, a New Delhi-based nonprofit..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinod_Dham.
http://www.iammadeinindia.com/?p=1361
http://venturebeat.com/2008/07/03/interview-with-vinod-dham-father-of-the-pentium-on-a-life-in-technology-and-venture-investing/
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