Interview with Vinod Dham, father of the Pentium, on a life in technology and venture investing
Vinod Dham has lived the quintessential Silicon Valley rags to riches immigrant story. Born in Pune, India, he came to the U.S. in 1975 as an engineering student with just $8 in his pocket. He became a chip engineer and helped invent Intel’s first flash memory chip. He went on to manage Intel’s microprocessor projects, including the breakaway Pentium chip that debuted in 1993 and cemented the company’s position as the world’s biggest chip maker…. Continue Reading
WiMAX company, Telsima, raises $25M in debt
Telsima, a Sunnyvale, Calif. provider of WiMAX broadband technology that lets carrier customers access the Internet, said it has gotten $25 million in debt.
SVB Silicon Valley Bank provided the financing.
From the company’s statement:
Telsima won multiple, multi-million dollar contracts from Tier I operators in 2007 for rolling out their WiMAX networks in India. Telsima also has some significant projects in the pipeline in other emerging markets, most specifically, CEE. Telsima has tied up with major… Continue Reading