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ET Editorial. ET Commentary. ET View. Just in Jest. Speaking Tree. ET Citings. Harsimran Julka. The pressure was enormous. What did you take away from the Pentium bug experience? VD: The reality never really got told. In my mind, when you are in that position of responsibility, then you have to acknowledge it. There was a paranoia inside that this admission would cause the company to fold and disappear. That was blown way out of proportion. If you own 80 percent of the market, you have to be honest and acknowledge it.
VB: You left Intel in after 16 years there. Was it a tough decision? VD: One of the best decisions I ever made was joining Intel. And the next-best decision was to leave Intel. You build something when everything is stacked up against you.
I would have never experienced this start-up life and it is far more fulfilling and learning. VD: I knew nothing about the start-up. Within a month, I found the company was broken. They would have continued to do it. I told Mike Yamamura, the NexGen engineering head, that it was a disaster and they had to put a Pentium bus on it. That very day, he came back in the evening and said he thought we could do it with just 4 percent penalty on performance.
For me, AMD was a total culture shock. It was run by someone who ruled it absolutely. He loved and hated that I challenged him all the time. He was surrounded by yes men. I knew I would not last in the AMD culture. It was very different from Intel. VD: It was a blessing. We rode the wave. Sometimes you get lucky. Sometimes you are unlucky, like with the Pentium bug.
VB: You got your shot at venture capital after that? They wrote the first check for Silicon Spice. We started NewPath Ventures. I wanted to do something in venture capital and something in India. It was payback time for me. People were afraid to set up in India, so all of my investments at NewPath were in companies set up here that could utilize labor in India. India had capital efficiency. You had to reduce the capital going into the startup to get a healthy return.
That was why we went to India. VD: No. I rode it enough to lead a comfortable life but nowhere near close to what could have happened. As a principal at Broadcom, I could only trade during certain windows and only so much.
I felt blessed to get what I did. Technically he was forced into Engineering by his family. He wanted to study Physics, but he was advised to shift in Engineering by his brother as there is more money in Engineering.
The organization named Continental Devices was a startup for semiconductor which had collaboration with Teledyne Semiconductor of California. After working there for four years, he left his job and traveled to the US. He did his MS in electrical engineering solid state electronics which is basically based on semiconductors.
It had given him a chance of getting in touch with his original love, the Physics. Thus, he had found this subject very interesting. His working with NCR Corporation had resulted into the invention of flash technologies. His experience in working with this new technology in NCR had resulted into a positive growth for Intel. He had worked with Intel for 16 years. The tag Intel Inside had almost become a trademark for all the computers. It is also a unique marketing strategy for the Intel.
In Intel, Dham led the development of the Pentium Processors. In the year , he left Intel holding the post of vice-president of microprocessor group of Intel. After Intel, he had joined the Nexgen, which is a rival company of Intel. Currently, he is working with a company named Silicon Spice, which is a communications technology development firm. Dham did B. After completing his B. He then joined Intel,as Engineer where he led the development of the world famous Pentium processor.
He rose to the position of vice-president of Micro processor Group at Intel. Dham has over the years been a Board member and an advisor to dozens of private and public companies.
Unlike many existing online courses that rely on videos, Acadgild provides live mentoring and hands-on engagement for building real applications for its students. It will also include building two applications, thus preparing the students for job ready skills and a more effective way for their perspective employers to evaluate them. Dham and his wife are donors to many causes in the US and India.
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