Vinod Dham

Vinod Dham

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Vinod Dham Profile

  • Name:
  • Vinod Dham
  • Other Name:
  • Father of the Pentium chip
  • Born / Home Town:
  • Pune
  • Spouse:
  • Sadhana
  • Education:
  • B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering - Delhi College of Engineering

    M.S. in Electrical Engineering - University of Cincinnati

  • Awards:
  • People Choice Award and Special Jury Award in the category of Science and technology by Times of India Group’s ‘Light of India Awards’

    'Lifetime Accomplishments Award' by VC Taskforce, a Silicon Valley based organization

    1993 Vinod Dham was named one of the top 25 executives in the US computer industry

    In 1999  Vinod Dham was named one of the top 100 most influential Asian Americans of the decade

    In 2000, he was appointed to serve on the President’s advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders by President Clinton

Vinod Dham Biography

Vinod Dham is basically an inventor, businessman and venture capitalist. Vinod Dham born in 1950 son of army's civilian department. His father had moved from Rawalpindi to India during the Partition of India. Vinod Dham completed his B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from the prestigious Delhi College of Engineering in 1971 (Now Delhi Technological university) at an age of 21.

He left for The US to get a graduate degree, incidentally he had only $8 in his pocket when he reached to America. It was during a presentation of his work on Non-Volatile Memory for the NCR Microelectronics at an IEEE workshop in Monterey California, Vinod Dham was approached by Intel and he immediately joined the company in 1979.

He worked with the Non Volatile Memory team and incidentally was one of the co-inventors of Intel’s first flash memory. He later moved to the microprocessor division where he honed his skills for leading the Pentium project by working on two earlier generations of microprocessors Namely Intel 386 and 486 in various capacities.

He says- Electrons move at the same speed whether at Intel or AMD

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Updated: April 05, 2015

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