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Ashlee Vance (born 1977) is an American columnist. He is primarily known for writing for The Register
The Register

The Register is a United Kingdom technology news and opinion website. It was founded by John Lettice and Mike Magee in 1994 as a newsletter called "Chip Connection", initially as an email service....
 from March 2003 to August 2008, but moved to the New York Times in September 2008. Vance covered companies such as IBM
IBM

International Business Machines Corporation, abbreviated IBM and nicknamed "Big Blue" , is a multinational corporation computer technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, New York, United States....
, HP, Intel, and Dell
Dell

Dell, Inc. is a multinational corporation technology corporation that develops, manufactures, sells, and supports personal computers and other computer-related products....
, 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
Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley is the South Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California, United States. The term originally referred to the region's large number of Integrated circuit innovators and manufacturers, but eventually came to refer to all the high-tech businesses in the area; it is now generally used as a metonym for the high-tech s...
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Ashlee Vance (born 1977) is an American columnist. He is primarily known for writing for The Register
The Register

The Register is a United Kingdom technology news and opinion website. It was founded by John Lettice and Mike Magee in 1994 as a newsletter called "Chip Connection", initially as an email service....
 from March 2003 to August 2008, but moved to the New York Times in September 2008. Vance covered companies such as IBM
IBM

International Business Machines Corporation, abbreviated IBM and nicknamed "Big Blue" , is a multinational corporation computer technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, New York, United States....
, HP, Intel, and Dell
Dell

Dell, Inc. is a multinational corporation technology corporation that develops, manufactures, sells, and supports personal computers and other computer-related products....
, 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
Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley is the South Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California, United States. The term originally referred to the region's large number of Integrated circuit innovators and manufacturers, but eventually came to refer to all the high-tech businesses in the area; it is now generally used as a metonym for the high-tech s...
. His writing often also appears in the New York Times and The Economist
The Economist

The Economist is an English-language weekly news and international relations publication owned by The Economist Newspaper Ltd. and edited in London....
 and such publications as the Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune

"The Trib" redirects here. For other newspapers with similar names, see Tribune The Chicago Tribune is a major daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, and the flagship publication of the Tribune Company....
, CNN.com, the Globe and Mail, the International Herald Tribune
International Herald Tribune

The International Herald Tribune is a widely read English language international newspaper. It combines the resources of its own correspondents with those of The New York Times and is printed at 33 sites throughout the world, for sale in more than 180 countries....
, and CNET
CNET

CNET Networks, Inc. was a mass media corporation based in San Francisco, California, United States. The company was co-founded in 1993 by Halsey Minor and Shelby Bonnie....
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Born in South Africa
South Africa

The Republic of South Africa, also known by Official names of South Africa, is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa....
, Vance grew up in Houston, Texas
Texas

Texas is a U.S. state located in the South Central United States, nicknamed the Lone Star State. Texas is the second largest U.S. state in both area and population, spanning , and with a growing population of 24.3 million residents....
 and now works in Mountain View
Mountain View

Mountain View is the name of several places:United States*Mountain View, Arkansas*Mountain View, California, in Silicon Valley*Mountain View, Contra Costa County, California, near Martinez...
, California.

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

Semi-Coherent Computing podcast

Vance hosts an audio podcast called Semi-Coherent Computing, in which he discusses enterprise computing topics such as Datacenter cooling and blade server
Blade server

Blade servers are self-contained all-inclusive server with a design optimized to minimize physical space. Whereas a standard 19-inch rack server can exist with a power cord and network cable, blade servers have many components removed for space, power and other considerations while still having all the functional components to be consider...
s, and interviews notable guests including chip pioneer David Ditzel of Transmeta
Transmeta

Transmeta Corporation was a United States-based corporation that licensed low power semiconductor intellectual property. Transmeta originally produced very long instruction word code morphing microprocessors, with a focus on reducing power consumption in electronic devices....
, Sun Microsystems
Sun Microsystems

Sun Microsystems, Inc. is a multinational corporation vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information technology services, founded on February 24, 1982....
, and Bell Labs
Bell Labs

Bell Laboratories is the research organization of Alcatel-Lucent and previously of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company .Bell Laboratories has had its headquarters at Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, and it has research and development facilities throughout the world....
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External links

  • in The Economist
  • (NY Times)
  • in the New York Times