- Vinod Dham
Vinod Dham (Hindi: विनोद धाम) (born 1950 in
Pune ,India ) is aventure capitalist .Vinod completed his undergraduate education in Electrical Engineering from the
Delhi College of Engineering . 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 joinedNCR Corporation atDayton, Ohio . He then joined Intel, and started working on the Pentium chip. He rose to the position of vice-president of Intel. He left Intel in 1995, and joined a number of startups includingNexGen , which was acquired by AMD, and then went on to Silicon Spice. He is also the co-founding partner of New Path Ventures which has funded Companies like [http://www.nevisnetworks.com Nevis Networks] . In an interview, Dham revealed that he came to the United States with only "$8 in his pocket". [VentureBeat, July 2008]References
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Pentium
*AMD K6 External links
* [http://www.dce.edu/alumni/archives/dham.html Article on Vinod Dham]
* [http://www.iloveindia.com/indian-heroes/vinod-dham.html Vinod Dham]
* [http://www.my-esm.com/daily/040398news5.html Former Intel, AMD Exec Joins Telecom Startup Silicon Spice]
* [http://www.podtech.net/home/1291/the-kamla-bhatt-show-vinod-dham-father-of-pentium-processor-on-investing-in-india Video - Father of Pentium Processor on Investing in India]
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