Discover Brian Holden's books

Brian Holden is a retired Silicon Valley technology executive who enjoys writing. He had a wonderful and fruitful 42-year career in the semiconductor industry. Brian has 53 US patents and has made many technical publications.

He is married, has two daughters, two step-daughters and a step-son, and lives in California.

The diverse topics of his seven books illustrate his broad interests.

• In 1993, he wrote an unpublished book about his atheism. Bits of this book show up in The Ministry.

• In 2008, he published HyperTransport 3.1 Interconnect Technology with MindShare Press. 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 and are now know as the Infinity Fabric.

• In 2015, he published Charles W. Woodworth: The Remarkable Life of U.C.'s First Entomologist about his great-grandfather, who was a famous entomologist. Among many other things, C.W. 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• In 2024, he wrote an unpublished memoir for his daughters titled Life's Adventures So Far.

• In 2025, he is publishing the first two books of the Emergent Mind Series, a Science Fiction trilogy, Emergent Minds and The Ministry.

Here I am at the beautiful Dead Horse Point State Park in Utah last summer.