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Siliconia - Part 1
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AUTOMATION ALLEY
Oakland County, Michigan, USA [1999]
On 1999-09-28 the Detroit News ran a rather plaintive
piece
on the struggles of Automation Alley to achieve name recognition and
momentum as a high-tech mecca. The article correctly pinpoints the
two main ingredients missing from this region dominated by car
manufacturers: a world-class technical school and available venture capital.
An Automation Alley organization has signed up many of the incumbent tech
companies and put up a fancy Web
site. The Detroit News story says they have a 5-language CD-ROM too.
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BILLY-CAN VALLEY
Arnhem Land, northern Australia [1996]
From Kevin Murray <kmurray at werple dot net dot au>:
"Just an antipodean note to your marvelous collection of Siliconia. An area in
the remote northern tip of Australia named Arnhem Land contains a large number
of multimedia projects, often focused on Aboriginal culture. This lends it the
name Billy-can Valley after the bush equipment for making tea on an open fire."
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BIOTECH BEACH
Orange County, California, USA [1998-05-11, LA Times]
Barbara Walsh, a medical reporter for the Los Angeles Times, writes
about the efforts by a San Francisco-based company to establish the name
Biotech Beach in southern California, with over 50 biotech companies
located there. Synergistic Media Network produces regional industry maps,
postcards, tee shirts, and other promotional materials on which local
companies pay to be listed. The president of one company that did not
renew its affiliation said, "Biotech Beach is resonating at a pretty
modest frequency as far as I'm concerned."
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BIT VALLEY
Somewhere vague in Japan [2000-05-02, Upside]
David James penned an article for Upside, titled
Bit
Valley Fever, about the Japanese hunger for US-style venture-backed
entrepreneurial spirit. Bit Valley is not so much a place
as a state of mind. James didn't coin the term, it's in widespread use in
Japan, he says. Here's how James "locates" Bit Valley:
Bit Valley takes its name from Shibuya, which literally
translates as "bitter" (shibu) and "valley" (ya). First named
the Bitter Valley Association, it was soon digitized to the Bit
Valley Association. Now Bit Valley is a generic term with
diminished geographic relevance, akin to the term Silicon
Valley.
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CWM SILICON
Newport, Gwent, South Wales
From Simon Whitaker <simon at netcetera dot org>: "This
site
makes reference to Cwm Silicon -- Cwm is Welsh for valley -- an area of
Newport in Gwent, South Wales. (The site belongs to Paul Flynn, the local Member
of Parliament.) The area has recently seen heavy investment by the Korean LG
corporation who have built a large semi-conductor plant there. There are also
various tech-orientated office units and call centres, including Dun and
Bradstreet's UK call centre where my wife works in tech support. The UK press
were rattling on last year about Newport being the 'new Seattle.'"
Whitaker notes that "cwm" is pronounced somewhere between "come" and
"coom,"
depending on which area of Wales the speaker hails from.
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CYBERABAD
City of Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India [1997]
From David Herron.
Hyderabad enjoys a politician, Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, who has
long pushed the city as a technology resource. Some time in 1997, the city
decided to refer to itself as Cyberabad. This
WIPO
transcript from October 1998 makes reference to this proposal and the immediate
scramble for domain names it kicked off. (Cyberabad.com was registered, not
by city officials, on 1997-12-31.)
A search
on Netcraft turns up 41 registered domain names containing the string
"cyberabad";
most of these are either empty, "parked," or for sale. Two active portal sites are
cyberabad.com and
cyberabadinfo.com.
In March 2000, US
President Bill Clinton visited Cyberabad during his tour of India.
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CYBERCHELLA VALLEY
Coachella Valley from Palm Springs to Thermal,
California, USA [1998]
From Gordon Fisher <gmfisher at popnetusa dot com>: "I have to
confess that I coined the term, and use it in my
website, the Cyberchella
Valley Gazette. I am founder of the Coachella Association of Multimedia
Producers (CAMP) and I think most people would be pleasently surprised to
find that the Coachella Valley has such high-tech enterprises as motion
capture studios, 3D animation studios, software companies, leading
infomercial studios, dozens of web-site developers (who wants to leave
home when it's 120 degrees outside?), digital sound studios and soon, some
major multimedia schools. We're not just hotels and medjool dates anymore."
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CYBERDISTRICT
Boston, Massachusetts, USA [1997]
From Will Kreth <wkreth at twmaine dot com>:
The area of downtown Boston between Summer and Congress Streets, near
Fort Point Channel, has organized itself as the
CyberDistrict. The site originally
featured a map showing the locations of some of its member organizations, but it
seems to have grown beyond such parochial concerns. From the
FAQ:
How is the Cyber District different from other technology communities
such as Multimedia Gulch, Silicon Alley, and Silic_n Prairie?
The Cyber District is more than a geographic or economic entity -- we
are a professional organization which maintains a close network of
professional and community programs, and our members are committed to
actively growing the interactive industry in Massachusetts while
remaining involved in our community.
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DIGITAL COAST
- Coast south from Ventura, California, USA [1997]
On 1998-02-19 the mayor of Los Angeles
launched
the moniker Digital Coast for the area of coastline from Ventura to the
Mexico border. The area is home to software, Internet, aerospace, bandwidth, and
multimedia companies. Digital Coast is being turned into
an official brand, following the trend among the latecomers
to the game of Siliconia -- witness Cyber District
(Boston, MA) and WebPort (Portland, ME).
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DIGITAL RHINE
The Over-the-Rhine neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA [1999]
Christopher R. McMahon wrote with a pointer to this
Cincinatti
Enquirer article from last October. The correspondent wasn't coining the term
Digital Rhine, he was reporting it already in use in an old and somewhat
run-down part of the city called Over-the-Rhine. This year a tech incubator in
the district, Main Street Ventures, put up a site at
www.digitalrhine.com. The area now houses
a couple of dozen Internet startups, with other tech-related and supporting businesses
numbering over a hundred.
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DOT BOWL
- Silicon Valley, California, USA [2001]
On 2001-06-24, the San Francisco Chronicle's Rob Morse coined, or promulgated,
the term Dot Bowl for the formerly high-flying Silicon Valley,
progenitor of all Siliconia. With the crumbling of the dot-economy and the closure
of dozens of dot-coms since the spring of 2000, the Valley has come to resemble
the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Morse's
column
includes this snippet:
High tech, what a joke. What's the latest Silicon Valley status
symbol? "A job," says Paul Saffo of the Institute for the Future. Alas,
we asked around for more Silicon Valley jokes, but there weren't any.
Like the Dust Bowl, there's not a lot of humor to be found in the
Dot Bowl.
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DOT COMMONWEALTH
- Massachusetts, USA [1999]
On 1999-10-21 the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, with the help of scores of
Internet startups, launched the campaign
to brand the state the .commonwealth (pronounced "dot commonwealth").
It's an exccedingly clever name. The PR push begins with a
Web site. On launch
day it's a little spare in the details of Massachusetts companies, but
has useful lists of high-tech organizations and their dot-com events.
At the Dot Comonwealth launch ceremony, the Massachusetts governor, Paul
Cellucci, claimed that an old nickname that has haunted the state --
Taxachusetts -- no longer applies. Besides talking up his
administration's policy of cutting taxes on Massachusetts
businesses, Cellucci called for a permanent, worldwide ban on all
taxation of Net economic activity. He said, "It seems to me it's
crazy to try to sort out" the more than 60,000 taxing authorities worldwide.
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DSP VALLEY
- Area around the University of Leuven, Belgium [1999]
Jan Offner, of the Flanders Foreign Investment Office, sent news of
the tech region in Levuen. Many of the companies there -- and the university at the
center of the action -- specialize in digital signal processing, hence
DSP Valley. Offner wrote, "The University of Leuven... is home to
IMEC, one of Europe's prominent semiconductor research facilities... We have been
having discussions (like everyone else) on how to avoid lapsing into the platitude
of silicon this or that. I don't know if we did much better with DSP
Valley."
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e-COAST
- Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA [1999]
The area around Portsmouth, and the 18-mile NH seacoast and adjacent areas
of Massachusetts and Maine, has been dubbed the e-Coast by the
high-tech community there. The initiative's Web
site is hip and Flashy, its logo a trendy swoosh. The e-Coast moniker is
gaining some traction outside the area, judging by this
Portsmouth Herald piece
on the inclusion of the label in the March GQ magazine.
Thanks to Aaron Smith for the original word on the e-Coast.
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E-COUNTRY
- Fairfax County, Virginia, USA [2000]
I became aware of the E-Country moniker when CNN correspondent
Brooks Jackson called me for an interview. Jackson's piece ran on 2000-05-19
on the news program The World today, and it is transcribed for the Web
here.
(My talking head was on national TV for 8 seconds. I figure it will be deducted
from my 15 minutes.) The impetus for the story was the
announcement of a $1.4M
media campaign to try to raise the tech profile of the area, home to AOL
and Network Solutions among many others.
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FLANDERS LANGUAGE VALLEY
- Area between Antwerp and Brussels, Belgium [1999]
Philip Droege called my attention to this Siliconium,
launched last year
by the Belgian royal family. The technology focus is on speech recognition; the
FLV is anchored by superstar Lernhout & Hauspie, which has pledged
funds to seed 10 language-related research parks around the world over the next few
years. This site for the FLV Fund, with investments
in scores of companies in nine countries, conveys some of the vibrancy behind this
initiative.
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INDIA'S SILICON VALLEY
- Bangalore, India [1996]
From Joshua Levy <joshua at intrinsa dot com>: "I've worked in India and never
heard the term Silicon Plateau. All the Indians I spoke
with called the area around Bangalore India's Silicon Valley. I think
this also qualifies as a Siliconium."
Note added 2000-08-30: This
article
in Business 2.0 updates the story of Bangalore: the city is
living up to its reputation as India's Silicon Valley -- it's overcrowded and expensive;
the a labor market is tight and the infrastructure tapped-out. Multi-national
tech companies are now looking more colsely at neighboring Hyderabad
(see Cyberabad).
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INTELLIGENT ISLAND
- Singapore [1997?]
From Kevin Lee <kevinjb at pl dot jaring dot my>:
"The government of Singapore launched a plan called the IT2000 a few years ago that aims
to make Singapore the first intelligent island in the world through
comprehensive networking and applications on the network.
SingaporeONE (One Network for
Everyone) is the product of the plan that provides ADSL access to
almost all households in the country. The network comes complete
with a set of useful application and facilities such as high speed
internet access, online shopping, online road traffic monitoring,
acquiring government services online, movies on request, etc. The
plan has also brought computers into the classroom and schools now
use computers extensively to aid teaching. A number of multinational
IT companies has a foothold in Singapore too, including IBM,
Microsoft, Intel, etc."
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KISELSTA
- Kista, a suburb of Stockholm, Sweden [1996]
From Hans Erik Nilsson <hasse at algonet dot se>: "Stockholm's own Silicon
Valley, the suburban area named Kista, is often called Kiselsta.
Kisel is the Swedish word for Silicon and stad is the Swedish
word for city or town, making Kiselsta a play-with-words
kinda thing meaning 'The City of Silicon.' "
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MEDIA DEL REY
- Santa Monica / Marina Del Rey, California, USA [1996]
From <james at cyberoffice dot com>, 1996-11-14: "I heard that the area in
Santa Monica / Marina Del Rey where all kinds of new media companies are located
is called Media Del Rey." This moniker, however prevalent it might once
have been, should decline now that the "official" name
Digital Coast has been blessed (1998-02-19).
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MULTIMEDIA GULCH
- San Francisco, California, USA [1995-12-10, New York Times]
The area south of Market Street.
Like Silicon Alley, this area is named for the concentration of
online-focused operations -- Wired and Hotwired live here -- as well as
multimedia software and title development. Multimedia Gulch is a
Siliconium of sorts, if you go back to the roots of Silicon Valley
when it was called Silicon Gulch.
Anton Sherwood <antons at jp dot .net> adds:
"As I understand it, Multimedia Gulch (San Francisco) is much smaller than
'South of Market.' SoMa broadly (the whole district between Market Street
and China Basin) is close to a square mile, about half of which is the
district of clubs, lofts, and warehouses usually meant by the label.
Multimedia Gulch seems to be just the few blocks around South Park."
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MULTIMEDIA SUPER CORRIDOR
- Area south of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia [1998?]
From Kevin Lee <kevinjb at pl dot jaring dot my>:
"The Multimedia Super Corridor is
an area 50 km by 25 km south of Malaysia's capital, Kuala Lumpur.
Northernmost landmark -- Kuala Lumpur City Centre, which boost the
tallest towers in the world, The Petronas Twin Towers. Southernmost
landmark -- Kuala Lumpur International Airport. MSC is a federal
government planned area for all high-tech companies. With its
unusual incentives such as tax breaks, unlimited importation of
knowledge workers and equipment, and so on, it has attracted a large
number of international IT companies such as Microsoft, Sun
Microsystems, Nippon Telegraph, and IBM. MSC's upcoming landmark
includes the world's first 'intelligent cities.' They are:
- Putrajaya -- the future admistrative capital of Malaysia.
- Cyberjaya -- the city in which all the high-tech companies will
set up their operation within the MSC; also the host city
for a Multimedia University.
"MSC has an International Advisory Panel that includes leaders of the
IT field such as Bill Gates. MSC will also have some of the world's
best telecommunication infrastructure. The government has identified
several 'flagship' developments that include the use of a single
smart card for multiple purposes (identification card, cash card,
passport, driving licence, credit card, medical records) for the
entire population in the county, intelligent school, telemedicine,
government-IT, etc."
Business Week ran a cover story on 1999-03-22 titled "Mahathir's High-Tech
Folly" that was, apparently, quite bearish on the prospects for the MSC.
(I have not read it.) The article itself is available
here
but costs $2 to access. Here is the MSC's
official response
to Business Week.
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PHILICON VALLEY
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA [1999-11-17, Forbes]
western suburbs centered around Valley Forge and Wayne.
Philicon Valley is an alternative form for the preferred
Silicon Valley Forge,
according to this
Forbes article.
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SILICON ALLEY
- New York City, New York, USA [1995-10-08, New York Times]
Broadway from the Flatiron District to TriBeCa.
So called because of all the multimedia software and title development
going on in the area. This Siliconium is one of my favorites because it
evokes echoes of Tin Pan Alley. The original Tin Pan Alley was
around 28th street between 6th and Broadway, just on the northern border
of today's Silicon Alley. According to one of many
pages
devoted to this cyber district, Silicon Alley is "loosely
defined as the area from 28th Street to Spring Street along Broadway, and
three blocks East and West of Broadway along that stretch." Other sources
claim all of Manhattan for the district, even all of New York State, and
beyond. Last year's Silicon Alley 100 Awards for the top Net influencers
chose a circle 100 miles in radius, centered on the Flatiron Building, as
the Silicon Alley cachement area.
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SILICON ALPS
- State of Carinthia, Austria
From Martijn Pierik <mpierik at mathewsandclark dot com>, who
points out the Silicon Alps site.
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SILICON BAYOU
- 2. Louisiana, USA
From Clifford E. Gregory <cgregory at tiac dot net>: "There is a
printer called Silicon Bayou Ink
In Lake Charles, LA. This
URL mentions the Silicon Bayou, which is the newsletter of
Analytical Automation Specialists in Baton Rouge, LA. On
this page
Alexandria, LA, is called Silicon Bayou."
- 1. Boca Raton, Florida, USA [1992?]
From Joshua Levy <joshua at intrinsa dot com>: "I saw this on a poster
(advertising a trade show?) in an office of a guy at IBM - Boca Raton. The
picture on the poster was a Terminator-like cyborg popping up out of the muck
in a swamp."
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SILICON BEACH
- 2. Santa Barbara, California, USA [1997-01-20, L.A. Times]
From Ken Switzer <kswitzer at gte dot net>:
"An article on Page 1 of the business section of the L.A. Times
is titled 'Sun, Sand and Silicon' and discusses the emerging software
industry in the Santa Barbara, CA area. It states the number of
software firms in the area has grown from 95 to 134 since 1994... A
quote in the article
suggests we now be called Silicon Beach. Apparently Florida uses the
term, but that is only an economic development campaign, not the real
thing like we have here. Also, the primary local Internet Service
Provider is called Silicon Beach."
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- 1. Florida, USA [1996-10-04,
Edupage]
> Silicon Beach?
> The state of Florida is going after the chip industry, hoping to lure
> microchip manufacturing plants to its sandy shores via tax credits and a
> $15-million cash incentive fund. The details must still be approved by the
> state legislature, but government officials are optimistic the strategy will
> meet with approval. "Florida has been considered a second-tier state by the
> industry," says a VP at Enterprise Florida, a quasi-governmental agency that
> promotes business interests in the state. (Wall Street Journal 2 Oct 96 F1)
It appears that the editors of Edupage are proposing this Siliconium. Their
story does not put it in the mouth of any spokesman or quasi-governmental agency.
It's clever, though: beaches are mostly composed of silicon, after all.
Silicon Beach Software, developer of the Macintosh game Dark Castle
and the utilities SuperPaint and SuperCard, should perhaps get credit for
earliest coinage of this Siliconium. Aldus bought Silicon Beach and was in turn
bought by Adobe. Now the only SBS product still on the market is SuperCard --
it's being sold by Allegient, a company formed by several former SBS employees.
(Thanks to Clark Shishido <cshishido at dev dot sig dot bsh dot com>
and David Gewirtz <david at component-net dot com> for this SBS history.)
InterNIC indicates that the name "siliconbeach.com" was issued in October 1995,
but to a different outfit, Silicon Beach Enterprises in Cardiff, CA -- their
Web page is currently (1998-02-10) a "watch this space" placeholder, as it has
been for 15 months now -- this may be the ISP referred to immediately below.
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SILICON BOG
- The midlands of Ireland [1995-09-25, San Jose Mercury News]
Larry Slonaker <Lslonaker at sjmercury dot com> cites Silicon Bog
in his SJ Mercury News
article.
The SJMN quoted Harvard Business Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter as follows:
"... Silicon Valley no longer is unique and no longer is able to monopolize
the development of new technology. Everyone is already talking about
Silicon Gulch in Austin,
Silicon Mountain in Colorado,
Silicon Forest in Seattle [sic],
Silicon Bog in Ireland,
and Silicon Glen in Scotland."
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SILICON CITY
- Chicago, USA [1998-05-11, The Business Journal]
Karen Rodriguez
writes
in The Business Journal, a San Jose / Silicon Valley technology paper, about
the Siliconia phenomenon. The one new Siliconium Rodriguez turns up is
Silicon City. She notes that in April Chicago abandoned its previous
Siliconium -- Silic_n Prairie -- for a new one. She quotes the director
of the Chicago Research & Planning Group, hired by the city to create a
tech center: "Our goal is to revitalize the economy here in Chicago," said
Richard Arns. "We want to attract [technology] tenants in one building which
will spawn bigger companies that bring money for R&D, hire local workers,
and draw venture capital."
It's not clear to me that all of Chicago is behind this name switch -- sounds
like one guy with one building.
From Tom Thornton <thornton at ilcoalition dot org>
of the Illinois Coalition for Science and Technology:
"Let me clarify the use of Siliconia in Illinois. First, the
most widely used moniker is Silic_n Prairie. The term is obviously
overused and seems to connote some wind-swept wasteland rather than
a technology hotspot, but that aside it is without question the most
frequently used term in the Chicago and statewide press (the
Chicago Tribune's business
and technology section is called, you guessed it, Silic_n Prairie),
from the lips of technology leaders and by regional trade groups like ours.
"Second, the City of Chicago has actually shied away from using any
Siliconia in marketing or other PR materials, so any reference to
them using Silicon City or Silic_n Prairie is just incorrect.
In fact the City has just embarked on a technology image campaign which
has no reference whatsoever to any Silicon silliness. The City has
chosen instead to lead with this phrase -- "Chicago: the most
innovative move your technology company can make."
"Third, the term Silicon City comes from a local CIO organization
called the Chicago Research and Planning Group. CRPG coined
the term to describe a project of theirs to develop a building for
IT firms similar in some respects to New York City's
Silicon Alley."
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SILICON DESERT
- Phoenix, Arizona, USA [1992?]
From Joshua Levy <joshua at intrinsa dot com>: "I've heard guys from
Honeywell - Phoenix refer to their area as Silicon Desert, but I thought
they were joking and the usage was not general."
The term is in wide use, reports Karl Hakkarainen <kh at ultranet dot
com>; it tops the home page of the Arizona
Software Association. But that outfit is shopping for another moniker,
according to this
story in the Phoenix Business Journal. The leading candidate to date
is the Digital Oasis, but I won't host that Siliconium here until
the ASA makes it official.
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SILICON DITCH
- The M4 Corridor, west out of London, UK [1999?]
From Roger Day <rday at harlequin dot co dot uk>:
"I've heard Silicon Ditch applied in a derogatory sense to the group
of computer companies (DEC, Microsoft et al.) who've sited their shiny new
boxes alongside the M4 corridor -- starting at Slough, then west including
Maidenhead, Reading, Wokingham, and Bracknell. The M4 is a motorway heading
west out of London towards Bristol and Wales (connecting to
Cwm Silicon in Newport, the roughest place in Wales -- all
those ex-steel workers)."
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SILICON DOMINION
- State of Virginia , USA [1997]
Virginia is known as The Old Dominion. The following is
from a copyrighted
cnet.com story written by Courtney Macavinta:
"To fatten up its allure to high-tech companies, the state
legislature of the Silicon Dominion has introduced a slew of
pro-Net bills since it convened on January 8."
And a TechWeb
story from 1997-08-20 states that, according to the American Electronics Association,
"Virginia is the nation's ninth leading cyberstate by employment
and is becoming known as Silicon Dominion. Nearly 127,000 Virginians were
employed by high-tech companies in 1995."
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SILICON FEN
- Cambridge, England [1998]
The story
In
Old England, a Silicon Fen appeared on the front page of the New York
Times Money & Business section for 1998-01-04. The story claimed that the
term Silicon Fen was in widespread use by insiders around Cambridge,
and continued, "This is no Silicon Valley. The pace here is neither
frenetic nor flashy, and people frown on loud manifestations of wealth."
(Note that Microsoft started up an $80M research facility in Cambridge
in 1997.)
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SILICON FREEWAY
- Southern California, USA [1998]
The LA Times story "In California's Silicon Freeway" begins,
"Northern California's Silicon Valley is synonymous with state-of-the-art
technology. Southern California's 'Silicon Freeway' is not -- yet." The newspaper
has moved the story to its
archives
where it will cost you $1.50, and it's only 825 words long. Better you should
visit Benjamin Kuo's Ventura County / Los Angeles County Line
High Tech Companies List
for free. Silicon Freeway was already obsolete a month after the LA Times
piece ran (1998-01-06), with the grand launch of the
Digital Coast
moniker.
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SILICON FOREST
- 2. Seattle, Washington, USA [1997]
The overall Puget Sound area
An article
in a Seattle newspaper suggests the moniker Silicon Forest for the Puget Sound
region. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer article also makes feints at
Silicon
Valley North (claimed by Ottawa) and
Telecom Valley (San Diego).
Clearly the author, Warren Wilson, has never visited this page.
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- 1. Portland, Oregon, USA [1986]
Area around Route 26, to the west
From David Taffs <dat at ebt dot com>: "The Silicon Forest is
not
near Seattle, but rather it is the area around Route 26 west of Portland, Oregon.
Intel has a huge plant there, as do a lot of other companies. They actually
manufacture semiconductors, I believe, and not just write software. I'm certain
I have seen this use in print in some trade rag in the late 1980s. This usage
was widely accepted in 1986, when I first came to Oregon (from Rhode Island)
to work for Mentor Graphics here."
From </S=J.WALKERLIDDELL/OU1=S26L07A at mhs-fswa dot attmail dot com>:
"Your original correspondent was mostly right: it's along highway 26,
and encompasses much of Hillsboro and northern Beaverton. Intel has
three major installations in the area, including wafer fab and a lot
of designers, Sequent and Mentor Graphics are both headquartered
there, Tektronix and Epson have large manufacturing plants, and of
course there are the innumerable startups that spin off when people
leave one of the big companies. I would agree that Silicon Forest
was a term commonly used by 1986. Intel had been there since before
1980, but for years they were alone in the middle of rolling farmland
and only in the last 10-12 years have other companies begun building
out there with a vengeance."
On 1998-06-28 The Old Bear <oldbear at arctos dot com> wrote with word
of the
Silicon
Forest Forum, a posting board sponsored by The Oregonian newspaper's
Oregon Live site.
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SILICON FOREST AUSTRALIA
Eastern Australia [1994]
From Steve Welstead <welstead at nrg dot com dot au:
"We registered the business name
in November 1994 and are using our domain name to promote the region (most
easterly point of Australia -- Byron Bay / Lismore / Ballina / Nimbin etc.).
It's the lifestyle capital of Australia and famous for the surf."
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