Vinod Dham
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| Born | 1950 (age 66–67) Pune,India |
| Residence | USA & India |
| Citizenship | India |
| Education | BE Electrical Engineering, MS Solid State Electronics Technology |
| Alma mater | Delhi Technological University University of Cincinnati |
Vinod Dham ( Gurmukhi: ਵਿਨੋਦ ਧਾਮ) is an Engineer, Entrepreneur and Venture Capitalist. He is popularly known as the Pentium Engineer for his contribution to the development of the highly successful Pentium processors of Intel Co. He is a mentor, advisor 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.
Vinod Dham's accomplishment as the "Pentium Engineer" and as an Indian-American technology pioneer from Silicon Valley, is being celebrated at a first-ever exhibition on South Asians in the National Museum of Natural History at the storied Smithsonian in Washington DC, highlighting Indian-Americans who have helped shape America.
Vinod Dham was born in 1950. His father was a member of the army civilian department who had moved from Rawalpindi, Punjab to India during the Partition of India. Dham obtained a BE degree in Electrical Engineering from Delhi College of Engineering, University of Delhi (now Delhi Technological University) in 1971 at the age of 21. He has three brothers and a sister. At the age of 25, he left his family in New Delhi to study a Masters of Science degree in the U.S.,arriving with just $8 in his pocket. He is married to Sadhana and has two sons.
After completing his BE degree in Electrical Engineering in 1971,he joined a Delhi-based semiconductor manufacturer Continental Devices as an Engineer. In 1975, he left this job and went to University of Cincinnati, in Cincinnati,Ohio to pursue a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering (Solid State Electronics Technology). After completing his MS degree in 1977, he joined NCR Corp at Dayton, Ohio, as an Engineer, where he did cutting-edge work in developing advanced non-volatile memories. He then joined Intel Co; as an Engineer, where he led the development of the world-famous Pentium Processor. He is called the "Pentium Engineer" for his role in the development of the Pentium Micro-Processor. He is also one of the co-inventors of Intel's first Flash Memory Technology (ETOX). He rose to the position of Vice-President of Micro-Processor Group at Intel Co.
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