Nigel Woodford and Scott Piercy have been avid computer enthusiasts their entire lives. After writing for other computer related publications, Nigel and Scott realized a great deal of dishonesty taking place. Companies would often offer perks for favored reviews, and webmasters would hand out product awards simply to continue receiving sample hardware.

In 2003, FastSilicon.com was launched, and has remained an unbiased publication, dedicated to the reader. The website has been successful, receiving numerous posts on high caliber websites including Slashdot.org. All content posted on FastSilicon.com is cross posted throughout the computer enthusiast community.

In 2006, SiliconNews.net, the brainchild of Nigel Woodford was launched. The goal "all your news in one place". The concept being that readers can go to only one website, and get the entire scoop for the day. The website offers language translation, search-able news, headline news stories, and much more. Since its inception, SiliconNews.net has been extremely successful, being posted throughout the net and appearing in print newspapers. Read more about SiliconNews.net here.

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(Editor-In-Chief): Nigel Woodford

In 1999, he started to publish articles, and began to be known for condensing the high tech, into simple speak. To date, he has published over 200 articles on computer hardware, coauthored books, and is a respected member of the computer enthusiast community. He has written for TheTechZone.com, Tbreak.com, TargetPC.com and worked on many freelance writing projects, including print media. His custom computer systems have appeared on Tech TV. He has attended numerous computer trade shows, and continually stays up to date on the latest in everything tech. Nigel is dedicated to the reader, and as Editor-In-Chief of FastSilicon.com, takes full responsibility for all content posted. Nigel specializes in motherboard design, chipsets, and CPU architecture.

(Chief Hardware Editor): Scott Piercy

Scott's adventures in computing began with a Zilog Z80, a TV set, a cassette recorder, and a soldering iron long ago in a galaxy far far away. Computers have been a passion and obsession his entire life. His earliest publication work was for SPARCUG, a regional Computer Users Group in the S.E. United States. This led to eventually getting published in print in Amiga® Magazine, attending Amiga/Newtek trade shows, and after the demise of Amiga, joining the x86 universe.

After several years as a PC enthusiast he began freelance writing for TheTechzone.com in 1999 and quickly became Hardware Editor. During his nearly four year tenure at TheTechzone, its daily average traffic increased by a factor of five, which catapulted TheTechzone into becoming the media portal it is today. Scott left TheTechzone in late 2002, owing to irreconcilable differences with the webmaster, to pursue other interests though continuing to periodically freelance for other websites such as Tbreak.com and others.

Computing isn't the length and breath of his experience. Paying the bills involved working for a large south eastern U.S. Retailer advancing from the store level to the corporate level in the 1990's as Loss Prevention Director of a corporate division, exercising responsibility over close to $1 Billion in standing inventory. It's this experience that lent him his keen grasp of not only how to keep an organization profitable, but how vital and fundamental it is in business to realize your success and failure in business comes down to understanding the customer, the individual, the user. Witnessing a large corporation "lose it's way", failing to grasp the obviousness of this fundamental aspect of business, and experiencing the pangs of corporate downsizing that came as a result drove these points home in a very strong manner. Watching an organization go from $12 Billion in annual sales with over 1200 stores to barely more than 1/3^rd of the stores remaining today in less than 5 years made Scott decide to devote his experience and knowledge to a new venture.

They say timing is everything, and in 2006 Nigel and Scott formulated a strategy to relaunch FastSilicon.com as well as introduce Nigel's news portal concept, SiliconNews.net. Several months worth of experimentation and hard work on Scott's part building upon a powerful CMS system have resulted in what we feel are two websites worthy of being your homepage. First there's FastSilicon.com, where the focus is hardware reviews, technology editorials, integrity, and professionalism. Secondly, SiliconNews.net is meant to be the enthusiasts one stop destination to find out what the rest of the enthusiast press is up to, to make sure users find the information they need no matter the source.