About & Contact
About Dan Sisson
I don't write about these industries from a distance. I spent 40 years inside them — and I moved to the center of where they're converging before most people knew it was happening.
My name is Dan Sisson. I'm a industrial systems-trained electrical engineer, cloud infrastructure content developer, and knowledge platform builder. My career began designing control systems for GE nuclear reactors, NSA power grids, NASA wind tunnels, and nuclear complexes — work that required a DOE security clearance and a level of engineering precision that does not forgive abstraction. I then spent nearly three decades inside Microsoft and some time at Amazon Web Services, documenting cloud infrastructure, security standards, and AI/ML systems at the practitioner level. I published one of the earlier guides to Google SEO in 2003 and ran a consulting business for 10 years. I have operated Go-Astronomy.com since 2004.
In early 2021 - months before Tesla announced its Austin headquarters move — I put an earnest deposit on a lot in Santa Rita Ranch, Liberty Hill, Texas. The decision came from a first-principles analysis: the Austin metro region was becoming the geographic convergence point for electrification, EVs, autonomy, and semiconductor supply chains. The Gigafactory Texas (Giga Austin) complex is ground zero for the singularity. The most aggressive commercial and industrial buildout in Texas is taking shape in the San Antonio-Austin-Taylor corridor. I moved in March 2022. I have been watching the thesis confirm in real time ever since — it's all around me.
SiliconPlans - spanning ElectronsX, SemiconductorX, DatacentersX, 137ai, AustinIO, and 5IREnterprise - is what I built to map what I see. It is not a content operation. It is a knowledge graph: structured, entity-resolved, cross-linked reference infrastructure designed to compound in value the way a canonical reference does, not the way an article does. Each site represents a thesis about where an ecosystem is going and what the structural knowledge gaps are right now.
I operate as a solo builder. That is an architecture decision, not a constraint. In the era of AI-assisted companies, controlling the taxonomy, the schema, the editorial thesis, the publishing stack, the workflow, and the cadence end-to-end produces a coherence and depth that teams with competing priorities rarely achieve, and with no baggage.
I create and publish under my own name. I have skin in the game. I am early. This decade will be wild.
This decade will be wild.
About ElectronsX
SemiconductorX is the silicon supply chain pillar of the SiliconPlans network. It maps the full semiconductor stack — from upstream materials and IP through front-end wafer fabrication, back-end assembly and packaging, chip types, and the sector demand layer that drives production priorities. The editorial thesis is direct: semiconductor supply chains are the rate-limiting constraint on every other technology transition in the network. Nothing in electrification, autonomy, AI compute, or physical robotics moves faster than the fab capacity and chip architectures that enable it.
Coverage spans fab facilities and equipment, process technology, advanced packaging, OSAT, metrology, and the geopolitical and trade dynamics — export controls, CHIPS Act, China bifurcation — that make semiconductor supply chains one of the defining strategic contests of this decade.
Editorial approach: Independent and unadvertised. No sponsor directs coverage. Content is structured for both technical practitioners and strategic analysts — organized as a knowledge graph with cross-links to the electrification, compute, and governance layers of the SiliconPlans network.
SemiconductorX is part of the SiliconPlans network, which maps the full AI-industrial stack from silicon through systems, deployment, and governance.
Contact
- Email: dan (at) electronsx (dot) com
- LinkedIn: Dan Sisson
- YouTube: ElectronsX
- USPS: 6001 W Parmer Ln, Ste 370-738, Austin, TX 78727