Brian Holden is a retired Silicon Valley technology executive who enjoys writing. The diverse topics of his four books illustrate his broad interests.
In 1993, he wrote an unpublished book about his atheism.
In 2008, he published "HyperTransport 3.1 Interconnect Technology". He was the President and Technical Chair of the HyperTransport Consortium for more than a decade. HyperTransport was used by AMD to connect all of its processors in the server market for many years. Elements of it are still used inside their parts.
In 2015, he published "Charles W. Woodworth: The Remarkable Life of U.C.'s First Entomologist" about his great-grandfather, who among many other things, suggested the use of Drosophila melanogaster for genetic research.
In 2023, he published a 400-page technical book titled "Chord Signaling" to the internal servers of the company he retired from, Kandou.
In 2025, he published the first Book, "Emergent Minds" in his new Science Fiction universe.
Brian has 53 US patents. He is married and lives in California.
