Syracuse, NY : April 19, 2002 — Dr. Nick Tredennick works with computer- and semiconductor-based startup companies and is a member of the Army Science Board (a Federal Advisory Committee). For two and a half years, he was Chief Scientist at Altera, a programmable logic company. He has extensive experience in MEMS (Micro Electrical Mechanical Systems), microprocessor design, with nine patents in microprocessor logic design and re-configurable computing. He was named a Fellow of the IEEE for his contributions to microprocessor design. At Motorola he designed the MC68000, the microprocessor that powered the original Macintosh computers. At IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center he designed the Micro/370 microprocessor. He has been the founder of several Silicon Valley startups including Nexgen, which went public and was bought by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). At Nexgen, he hired and managed the team that designed the microprocessor that became the AMD K-6.

Dr. Tredennick has taught at the University of California, Berkeley and at the University of Texas, Austin. He is the author of a textbook, Microprocessor Logic Design, and almost fifty technical papers and is frequently a featured speaker at technical conferences. Dr. Tredennick is on the editorial boards of Microprocessors and Microsystems, Microprocessor Report, and Embedded Developers Journal. He is currently the author of DynamicSilicon, the news letter which is published by Gilder Publishing.

Dr. Tredennick holds MSEE and BSEE degrees from Texas Tech University, where he was named a Distinguished Engineering Graduate. He earned a PhD in electrical engineering at the University of Texas. Dr. Tredennick was recently nominated as an IEEE representative to the Engineering Accreditation Commission.