- Silicon Prairie
The Silicon Prairie can refer to one of several places in the United States: an area in
Illinois , and more commonly one inTexas .Dallas-Fort Worth Silicon Prairie
North Texas 's Silicon Prairie refers tonorth Dallas and Dallas and Fort Worth's northern suburbs, all part of theDallas-Fort Worth Metroplex . It is named for the high concentration ofsemiconductor manufacturing ,telecommunications , and otherinformation technology related companies in the area.Dallas area business in these industry sectors includeTexas Instruments (Richardson ), EDS (Plano),RadioShack (Fort Worth),AT&T (Dallas ),Nortel (Richardson),Alcatel-Lucent (Richardson ), Cisco (Richardson ),Ericsson (Richardson ),Rockwell Collins (Richardson ),Raytheon (Plano ),Verizon (Irving),CompUSA (Addison),Entrust (Addison ),i2 Technologies (Irving ), CSC (Fort Worth ),Match.com (Dallas ),Hotels.com (Dallas ),Travelocity (Southlake),Motorola (Dallas ),Nokia (Irving ), andMicrosoft (Irving ). TheTelecom Corridor inRichardson is usually considered an area within the Silicon Prairie. There are also a large amount of recognized video and computer game developers in the area, known as theDallas Gaming Mafia , includingGearbox Software ,id Software , 3D Realms, andEnsemble Studios . [ [http://www.iasted.org/ International association of science and technology for development] -" [http://www.iasted.org/conferences/2006/dallas/csb.htm The IASTED International Conference on Computational and Systems Biology (CASB 2006)] ." Originally published2005 . Retrieved13 April 2007 .]Illinois Silicon Prairie
The Illinois Silicon Prairie is seen as the area between Chicago and Champaign/Urbana. Most of the companies in the
Champaign-Urbana Metropolitan Area are research and small start-up companies working with theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign . SevenFortune 500 companies have research entities at the university's research park, which is located inChampaign . TheNational Center for Supercomputing Applications is inUrbana [ [http://www.technewsworld.com/ Tech News World] -" [http://www.technewsworld.com/story/49212.html Silicon Prairie May Be Fertile Ground for Emerging Homeland Security Biz] ." Originally published7 March 2006 . Retrieved30 March 2007 .]The
Chicago Metropolitan Area is home to several companies in theindustrial electronics ,consumer electronics , andtelecommunications industries. TheIllinois Technology and Research Corridor along Interstate 88 and theGolden Corridor alongInterstate 90 have particularly high concentrations of such businesses.Among the Chicago area companies that comprise the Illinois Silicon Prairie are
Alcatel Lucent ,Anixter International ,BFG Technologies ,Continental Automotive Systems ,FANUC Robotics ,Hostway ,Molex ,Motorola ,Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems ,Omron ,Panasonic ,Schneider Electric ,Shure Incorporated ,Tellabs ,Underwriters Laboratories ,USRobotics ,Westell ,WMS Gaming , andZebra Technologies .Wyoming Silicon Prairie
Refers to the region of Wyoming south and east of Jackson Hole. Also called the
Silicon Range where a growing number of internet (Web 2.0) startups.References
[Silicon Prairie News] http://www.siliconprairienews.com
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