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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (5393)	4/3/1998 5:30:00 PM
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Former Intel, AMD Exec Joins Telecom Start-Up Silicon Spice (04/03/98; 3:56 p.m. EST) By Mark LaPedus, Electronic Buyers' News Vinod Dham, the former microprocessor boss for Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Intel, reappeared Friday on the semiconductor scene as president and CEO of Silicon Spice, a telecommunications chip start-up, based in Mountain View, Calif. "Silicon Spice is developing a radically new signal processing technology," Dham said in a statement. "I chose to join Silicon Spice due to the enormous potential it offers in the emerging communication-centric information industry." Officials from Silicon Spice gave few details about the company, which was formed in September 1996. However, the company, which said it plans to roll out its first product by year's end, announced it obtained $7 million in second-round funding from its current and new investors. The total capitalization of the start-up now stands at $10.3 million. The investors in the company include Kleiner Perkins Caulfield Byers, New Enterprise Associates, World View Technology Partners, and Chemicals and Materials Enterprise Associates. Another boost for Silicon Spice is the addition of Dham. A 16-year veteran of Intel -- and one of the chief designers of its Pentium chips -- Dham at one point was also in charge of the processor lines for the Santa Clara, Calif.-based semiconductor giant. Most recently, he was group vice president of AMD's Computation Products Group. Dahm, who was in charge of the company's K6 processor lines, resigned last November. Prior to AMD, Dham was chief operating officer of now-defunct Nexgen, an x86-based chip start-up that was eventually acquired by AMD. techweb.com