![]() ![]() Qualcomm in San Diego and Nokia in Finland. Three of the four companies not based in Silicon Valley have research and development consolidated near their corporate headquarters: Microsoft in Redmond, Wash. But still, more of its R&D occurs in northern California than anywhere else. HP is somewhat more diversified, with product development for its Compaq unit in Houston, plus R&D facilities in Idaho, Oregon, and additional cities around the globe. The same is true of Cisco, though the networking giant owns several large subsidiaries-such as Scientific Atlanta-that are based elsewhere. Intel has research-and-development facilities in Oregon, Arizona, and Israel, but a significant amount of its R&D occurs at or near its Santa Clara, Calif., headquarters. Google and Apple are very much centralized from a product and technology development standpoint. Amazing, when you think about it.Īnd these companies are far from just "headquartered" in Silicon Valley. In fact, if you map these company's headquarters, they'd all be inside a circle with a radius of just 10 miles. Well, if you go strictly by market capitalization, and look at the top 10 information technology companies, 6 of them are based in Silicon Valley: Cisco Systems, Google, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Apple, and Oracle. Sure, the confluence of venture capital, universities, and lawyers make it a veritable petri dish for the formation of technology companies, but there are a lot of other great places for innovation, right? ![]() Every so often, I wonder if Silicon Valley is all it's cracked up to be. ![]()
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