Monday 19 January 2015

The creator of Pentium Chip

Fact to make every Indian proud : 

Do U Know Who is the creator of Pentium chip (needs no introduction as 90% of the today's computers run on it) ? He is Vinod Dahm.He is suitably known as the father of the Pentium processor. Vinod was born in Pune, India in 1950.He received his initial education at Pune. Vinod earned his bachelor's degree from the Delhi College of Engineering, in Electrical Engineering in the year 1971. After completing his engineering, Vinod worked briefly in Delhi for Continental Devices- a semiconductor company. To pursue advance studies, Vinod went to the US in the year 1975. There, he joined the University of Cincinnati to pursue a Masters in Electrical Engineering. After his masters, in 1977, Vinod joined the National Cash Register (NCR) at Dayton, Ohio. There, he worked as a team member of the NCR's memory design group. While working at the NCR, Vinod Dahm received many patents. It was during one of the presentations in Monterrey, California that Intel offered Vinod to work with it.

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