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About the Site

SemiconductorX is an independent knowledge hub dedicated to the global semiconductor ecosystem-from raw materials and fabs to packaging, compliance, and end-use industries. Chips are the fabric of intelligence and power, enabling AI, electrification, and the Fifth Industrial Revolution.


Mission

Provide structured overviews, reference tables, and forward-looking insights into the manufacturing stack, critical infrastructure systems, operations, energy demands, security frameworks, and global deployments shaping the industry.

Coverage

  • Supply chain: materials, wafers, equipment, logistics
  • Facilities: fabs, OSAT/packaging, R&D, cleanrooms
  • Chip types: logic, memory, power (SiC/GaN), RF, sensors, rad-hard
  • Industries: automotive, AI & HPC, aerospace & defense, consumer
  • Cross-cutting: compliance, workforce, security, sustainability, reshoring

Why It Matters

  • National security: trusted foundries, defense chips, secure comms
  • Energy transition: SiC/GaN for EVs, renewables, BESS inverters
  • Chip types: logic, memory, power (SiC/GaN), RF, sensors, rad-hard
  • AI infrastructure: GPUs/accelerators for datacenters and edge
  • Everyday life: phones, medical devices, IoT, robotics

Who Cares

  • Engineers: fab processes, chip stacks, packaging flows
  • Enterprises: vendor mapping, supply chain resilience, compliance
  • Investors: fab expansions, reshoring trends, growth sectors
  • Policymakers & academia: national strategy, workforce, standards

Part of the SiliconPlans Network

SemiconductorX is part of the Silicon Plans network, which includes sites dedicated to semiconductors, AI data centers, sustainable luxury, compliance, and the Fifth Industrial Revolution. Together, these platforms map the technologies, infrastructures, and supply chains mapping the AI-Industrial Complex.


Editorial Approach

  • Independent and objective: Content is neutral and vendor-agnostic.
  • Auditable: grounded in official regulations, standards, and references
  • Practical - designed to help enterprises deploy AI responsibly.

About the Publisher

Dan Sisson is a systems engineer and cloud infrastructure architect whose career spans classified nuclear facility instrumentation, American cloud computing, and the emerging electrification and autonomy supply chains.

He spent nine years at Black & Veatch designing control systems for GE nuclear reactors, NSA power grids, NASA wind tunnels, and DOE nuclear complexes — holding a DOE L security clearance. He then spent nearly three decades inside Microsoft and Amazon Web Services documenting cloud infrastructure, security standards, and AI systems. He published one of the earlier practitioner guides to Google SEO in 2003 and has operated Go-Astronomy.com since 2004.

In early 2021, months before Tesla announced its Austin headquarters move, he put an earnest deposit on a dirt lot along the Georgetown-Liberty Hill corridor — the result of a first-principles analysis identifying Austin as a convergence point for electrification, autonomy, and semiconductor supply chains. He moved in March 2022. He is completing Training the Oracle, one of the first practitioner guides to Generative Engine Optimization, using ElectronsX and SemiconductorXas his live testing grounds.

SiliconPlans is his evolving platform for documenting what he sees. He publishes under his own name. He has skin in the game. He was early.


Contact

  • Email: dan (at) electronsx (dot) com
  • LinkedIn: Dan Sisson
  • YouTube: ElectronsX
  • USPS: 6001 W Parmer Ln, Ste 370-738, Austin, TX 78727