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Silicon Prairie Information

The Silicon Prairie can refer to one of several places in the United States: an area in Illinois, one in a multi-state region comprised loosely of parts of Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota, and Missouri, one in Wyoming, and one in Texas.

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Dallas-Fort Worth Silicon Prairie

North Texas's Silicon Prairie refers to north Dallas and Dallas and Fort Worth's northern suburbs, all part of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. It is named for the high concentration of semiconductor manufacturing, telecommunications, and other information technology related companies in the area.

Dallas area business in these industry sectors include:

The Telecom Corridor in Richardson 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 the Dallas Gaming Mafia, including Gearbox Software, id Software, 3D Realms, and Ensemble Studios.[1]

Illinois Silicon Prairie

The Illinois Silicon Prairie typically refers to the Chicago and Champaign/Urbana areas. Much of the high technology industry base in the Champaign-Urbana Metropolitan Area consists of research and small start-up companies working with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Seven Fortune 500 companies have research entities at the university's research park, which is located in Champaign. The National Center for Supercomputing Applications is in Urbana.[2]

The Chicago Metropolitan Area is home to several companies in the industrial electronics, consumer electronics, and telecommunications industries. The Illinois Technology and Research Corridor along Interstate 88 and the Golden Corridor along Interstate 90 have particularly high concentrations of such businesses.

Among the Chicago area companies that comprise the Illinois Silicon Prairie are:

Midwest Silicon Prairie

An area of the Midwestern United States is often referred to as the Silicon Prairie. This region can loosely be defined as the states bordering along Interstate 29 in the Upper Midwest; specifically Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota, Kansas and Missouri[3].

Gateway

The moniker was first claimed by the Gateway 2000 computer company in advertisements in the mid-1990s as its location in advertisements and promotional materials. The firm was originally founded in Sioux City, Iowa but later relocated across the border to North Sioux City, South Dakota.[4]

Silicon Prairie News

In 2008, the online technology and entrepreneurial news publication Silicon Prairie News was founded to highlight achievements of companies in the region's principal cities, namely: Omaha, Des Moines, Lincoln, Sioux Falls and Kansas City.[5]

Iowa Governor Culver

in 2009, Governor Chet Culver (D-Iowa) used the term to describe his desired future reputation for his state after their investment in wind and other renewable energy industries. [6]

Wyoming Silicon Prairie

Wyoming's Silicon Prairie refers to the region of Wyoming south and east of Jackson Hole, also called the Silicon Range, where a growing number of Web 2.0 startups are setting up shop.

References

  1. ^ International association of science and technology for development - "The IASTED International Conference on Computational and Systems Biology (CASB 2006)." Originally published 2005. Retrieved 13 April 2007.
  2. ^ Tech News World -" Silicon Prairie May Be Fertile Ground for Emerging Homeland Security Biz." Originally published 7 March 2006. Retrieved 30 March 2007.
  3. ^ Rubin, Josh (2010-07-16). "Techies reject coasts for 'Silicon Prairie'". CNN.com. http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/innovation/07/16/silicon.prairie/. Retrieved 2010-07-16.
  4. ^ Lohr, Steve (1997-09-04). "Gateway 2000 Chairman Blames Haste for Earnings Lag". New York Times. http://partners.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/090497gateway.html. Retrieved 2009-10-31.
  5. ^ "About Silicon Prairie News". Silicon Prairie News. http://www.siliconprairienews.com/about. Retrieved 2009-10-31.
  6. ^ Strawn, Jessi (2009-08-06). "Governor visits Iowa State as part of renewable energy tour". Iowa State University Featured News. http://news.engineering.iastate.edu/?p=283&cpage=1. Retrieved 2009-10-31.

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