Nick Tredennick is a Contributing Editor for the Gilder Technology Report. He has been on the editorial advisory board for several technical publications including IEEE Spectrum and Microprocessor Report. He is an advisor to and investor in numerous high-tech startups. He has a PhD in electrical engineering was a registered professional engineer for many years.
Tredennick was named a Fellow of the IEEE for contributions to microprocessor design. While at Motorola, he designed the microprocessor that became the central processor for the original Apple Macintosh. He also designed a System/370 microprocessor as a Research Staff Member at IBM's Watson Research Center. He was Chief Scientist at Altera, a programmable logic company. He has taught at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of California, Berkeley. He has been a founder of several Silicon Valley startups. He has written a textbook and more than sixty technical papers and has nine patents.
Tredennick was a pilot in the U.S. Air Force. He also served in the Air Force Reserve and the Air National Guard before transferring to the Naval Reserve where he eventually retired as a Captain. He is on a second tour as a member of the Army Science Board.
