Nieke Roos

Editor-in-chief at Bits&Chips

Nieke Roos is editor-in-chief of Bits&Chips, the leading independent English-language platform for the Dutch high-tech industry, a position he has held since 2010. He oversees editorial coverage of ASML and the Dutch semiconductor ecosystem in the greater Brainport area, including chip design, embedded software, systems engineering and the industrial infrastructure surrounding lithography. Roos has been involved with Bits&Chips since 1999 – first as a staff writer, then as deputy editor-in-chief from 2008 and as editor-in-chief from 2010 – giving him more than 25 years of continuous engagement with the Dutch high-tech sector.

Nieke Roos holds an MSc in computer science (1999), an MA in Dutch linguistics (2002) and a PhD in linguistics (2009), all from Radboud University Nijmegen. This combination of technical grounding and linguistic precision shapes how he translates complex topics, especially in advanced software and systems engineering, for a specialist readership. Since 2022, Roos has also managed the software, electronics and optics training portfolio at High Tech Institute, keeping him directly connected to the skill demands of the Dutch high-tech industry.

Nieke Roos has written hundreds of articles for Bits&Chips, the Dutch high-tech platform, including:

“Startup within ASML” (2017)

“The art of architecting meets software sculpting“(2022) and

“Slaying the legacy beast in the PLC realm“(2024).

As copy editor at Techwatch Books, he edited “ASML’s architects” (2018, ISBN 978-90-827074-2-7) and its Dutch-language counterpart “De architecten van ASML” (2017), as well as “Natlab: Kraamkamer van ASML, NXP en de cd” (2016, ISBN 978-90-825798-0-2), a historical account of the Philips Natlab and its role in the development of ASML and NXP. He also edited both editions of “The waves of Agile” (2021 and 2025), covering software delivery practices in large engineering organizations.

As editor-in-chief, he has co-organized the Bits&Chips Event (2002–present, approximately 400 attendees) and the Benelux RF&IC Conference (2016–present, approximately 200 attendees).