Daniel Nenni is a respected Silicon Valley veteran with more than four decades of experience in the semiconductor industry. Since the 1980s, he’s worked across fields including semiconductor IP, electronic design automation (EDA), and chip design and manufacturing.
He’s best known as the founder of SemiWiki.com, an influential online forum and knowledge-sharing hub for semiconductor professionals. The site, launched in 2011, brings together engineers, designers, vendors, and industry experts to debate, learn, and publish––with over 300,000 registered members as of the latest figures .
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In addition to his community leadership, Nenni is an author. His books cover key industry transformations, such as the shift to fabless semiconductor business models. Notably, Fabless: The Transformation of the Semiconductor Industry offers an insider perspective on how the industry evolved from vertical integration to the modern fabless-foundry structure.
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Nenni also actively contributes as a writer and commentator on SemiWiki, producing articles, forums posts, and executive interviews. He regularly publishes timely industry analysis—most recently in July 2025—highlighting trends such as TSMC, Intel Foundry, AI chip ecosystems, and more.
Since going online in 2011 SemiWiki.com has registered more than 300,000 members. If you are not a member of the SemiWiki community please register as my guest.
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Today everything and everyone is connected and crowd sourced. In fact, all social media, from blogs, to forums, and wikis have a profound impact on how people communicate, search for information, and make decisions. For vendors, social media is no longer an experiment or a moonlighting function. Social media is now an integral part of corporate communications.
The SemiWiki business model is subscription based so there is a financial link and the SemiWiki Bloggers share in that success. Bloggers need to eat too. The point of the SemiWiki blogs, wikis, and forums are to drive traffic, feed the site analytics, and provide a real-time-feedback-loop, that is where the SemiWiki value proposition is. This is crowd sourcing, Bloggers share observations, experiences and opinions, SemiWiki members can agree or disagree, the collective knowledge of the crowd will win every time. That is social media: increasing the transparency of business, products, and people.
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You do not need to subscribe to SemiWiki for us to cover your events. Contact the Blogger of your choice and we will see what we can do, as time and interest permits. If you want us to cover a live event send us a media pass and we would be happy to attend (schedule permitting) and share our experiences on SemiWiki. If you would like to post a guest blog on SemiWiki please email that request to admin at semiwiki dot com.
Companies that currently subscribe to SemiWiki or have a professional connection with a SemiWiki Blogger include:
Altair, Amiq EDA, Aniah, ANSYS, Breker Systems, Cadence, Defacto, Empyrean, Infinisim, IROC Technologies, Keysight EDA, MZ Technologies, Perforce, Scientific Analog, Siemens EDA, Synopsys, S2C EDA, YieldHUB.
Achronix, Agile Analog, Alphacore, AlphawaveSemi, Andes, Arteris, Analog Bits, Blue Cheetah Analog Design, CAST, Certus Semiconductor, CEVA, Codasip, Comcores, Easy-Logic, Flex Logix, Mixel, Quadric, Semidynamics, Silicon Creations, SureCore, WeeBit Nano.
Accellera, Alchip, Axiomise, IC Mask Design, Samtec, Semiconductor Advisors, Semiconductor Intelligence, Silicon Catalyst, Sondrel, TechInsights,
Intel Custom Foundry, Soitec, TSMC.
Regular SemiWiki Bloggers include industry professionals:
Daniel Nenni, Daniel Payne, Eric Esteve, Bill Jewell, Scotten Jones, Don Dingee, Bernard Murphy, Robert Maire, Fred Chen, Mike Gianfagna , and Kalar Rajendiran.
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