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Vinod Dham (Hindi: ????? ???) (born 1950 in Pune
Pune

Pune ,Pune is the administrative capital of Pune district and the 7th Metro city of India.Pune is known to have existed as a town since 937 AD....
, Maharashtra
Maharashtra

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, India
India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
) is an Indian inventor and venture capitalist.

Coming to India
India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
 during Partition from Rawalpindi
Rawalpindi

is a city in the Potwar Plateau near Pakistan's capital city of Islamabad, in the Subdivisions of Pakistan of Punjab . The area was home to the pre-historic Soanian culture indigenous to this region....
, Dham's father joined the army as a civilian. Dham was born in Pune (across the railway station in Cowasji Hospital, says Dham) as his father was posted there. Vinod completed his undergraduate education in Electrical Engineering from the Delhi College of Engineering
Delhi College of Engineering

Delhi College of Engineering is among the premier engineering colleges in India. It was established in 1940, originally as Delhi Polytechnic and was under the direct control of Government of India....
.






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Vinod Dham (Hindi: ????? ???) (born 1950 in Pune
Pune

Pune ,Pune is the administrative capital of Pune district and the 7th Metro city of India.Pune is known to have existed as a town since 937 AD....
, Maharashtra
Maharashtra

Maharashtra is a States and territories of India located on the western coast of India. Maharashtra is a part of Western India. It is India's List of states of India by area and List of states of India by population....
, India
India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
) is an Indian inventor and venture capitalist.

Coming to India
India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
 during Partition from Rawalpindi
Rawalpindi

is a city in the Potwar Plateau near Pakistan's capital city of Islamabad, in the Subdivisions of Pakistan of Punjab . The area was home to the pre-historic Soanian culture indigenous to this region....
, Dham's father joined the army as a civilian. Dham was born in Pune (across the railway station in Cowasji Hospital, says Dham) as his father was posted there. Vinod completed his undergraduate education in Electrical Engineering from the Delhi College of Engineering
Delhi College of Engineering

Delhi College of Engineering is among the premier engineering colleges in India. It was established in 1940, originally as Delhi Polytechnic and was under the direct control of Government of India....
. In 1971, after graduation, he joined a Delhi-based semiconductor company called Continental Devices. In 1975, he left this job and joined University of Cincinnati to pursue a masters degree in Electrical Engineering, where he specialized in Solid State Science. After completing his masters degree in 1977, he joined NCR Corporation
NCR Corporation

NCR Corporation is a technology company specializing in products for the retail and financial sectors. Its main products are point of sale, automatic teller machines, cheque processing systems, barcode reader, and business consumables....
 at Dayton, Ohio
Dayton, Ohio

Dayton is a city in and the county seat of Montgomery County, Ohio, Ohio, United States, in the southwestern part of the state. The population was 166,179 at the United States Census, 2000....
. He then joined Intel, and started working on the Pentium chip. He is called the "Father of Pentium" for his role in the development of the Pentium processor. He is also one of the co-inventers of non-volatile flash memory
Flash memory

Flash memory is a non-volatile memory computer storage that can be electrically erased and reprogrammed. It is a technology that is primarily used in memory cards and USB flash drives for general storage and transfer of data between computers and other digital products....
. He rose to the position of vice-president of Intel. He left Intel in 1995, and joined a number of startup
Startup company

A startup company or start-up is a company with a limited operating history. These companies, generally newly created, are in a phase of development and research for markets....
s including NexGen
NexGen

NexGen was a private semiconductor company that designed x86 microprocessors until it was purchased by AMD in 1996. Like competitor Cyrix, NexGen was a fabless design house that designed its chips but relied on other companies for production....
, which was acquired by AMD, and then went on to Silicon Spice, which was acquired by Broadcom
Broadcom

Broadcom Corporation is an United States supplier of integrated circuits for broadband communications. Founded in 1991 by Henry Samueli and Henry T....
 in 2000. He is also the co-founding partner of New Path Ventures which has funded Companies like . In an interview, Dham revealed that he came to the United States with only "$8 in his pocket".

He was part of the board of directors of Satyam Computer Services Ltd. that approved the purchase of construction company Maytas (owned by the same family that owns Satyam), worth $225 Million, for $1.6 billion. The imperialistic deal was presented to the shareholders as if it is irreversible decision by the board. Finally, the deal was reversed due to heavy shareholder protests. He resigned from the Satyam board on 28.12.2008

See also


  • Pentium
    Pentium

    Introduced on March 22, 1993, the original Pentium was the first superscalar x86 architecture microprocessor. Its fifth-generation x86 microarchitecture was a direct extension of the 80486 architecture with dual integer pipeline s, a faster FPU unit, wider data bus, and features for further reduced address calculation latency....
  • AMD K6
    AMD K6

    The K6 microprocessor was launched by AMD in 1997. The main advantage of this particular microprocessor is that it was designed to fit into existing desktop designs for Pentium branded CPUs....


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