Born in 1950. Known as the 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 intial schooling in
Line. He did his Bachelors in 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 at Monterry, California, on reprogrammable memory, Vinod Dham
received an offer from the Intel go 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 quits 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 quits AMD.
Presently, Vinod Dham is the chairman,
president and chief executive officer of Silicon Spice, a communication
technology development firm.
No comments:
Post a Comment