Ashlee Vance

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Ashlee Vance (born 1977) is an American columnist for the online technology website The Register. He has written for The Register since 2003. Vance covers companies such as IBM, HP, Intel and Dell and also writes about a wide range of technology topics, including robots and Segway scooters. He tends to write in a sarcastic, cynical tone, much as one would read in MAD Magazine.

Vance has written a book, called Geek Silicon Valley, on the history of the Silicon Valley. It was published on 17 October 2007 by the Globe Pequot Press. His writing often also appears in the New York Times and the Economist and such publications as the Chicago Tribune, CNN.com, the Globe and Mail, the International Herald Tribune and CNET. Born in South Africa, Vance grew up in Texas. He now works in Mountain View, California.

Ashlee provides latest updates on Hardware & Server technology. Ashlee's latest radio talk show aims to make IT interesting for Register readers.

[edit] Semi-Coherent Computing podcast

He also hosts a audio podcast called Semi-Coherent Computing, ^[1]^[2] discussing enterprise computing topics like Datacenter cooling issues and blade servers. With notable guests such as, chip pioneer David Ditzel of Transmeta, Sun Microsystems and Bell Labs.^[3]