Vinod DhamHe is called the "Father of Pentium" for his role in the development of the Pentium processor. He is also one of the co-inventors of non-volatile flash memory. He rose to the position of vice-president of Intel. He left Intel in 1995, and joined a number of startups including NexGen, which was acquired by AMD, and then went on to Silicon Spice, which was acquired by Broadcom in 2000Source: en.wikipedia.org