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In Reply to: RE: Interesting company. Taiwan roots making PC Graphics cards posted by fantja on September 09, 2014 at 19:35:03
They have a facility in Fremont, CA which is in N.CA "silicon valley".
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I recall back in the 70's and into the early 80's many electronic manufacturing companies were located in Fremont.In fact...
"A boom in high-tech employment in the 1980s to the late 1990s, especially in the Warm Springs District, caused rapid development in the city and linked the city with the Silicon Valley. The Apple factory where the first Mac computer was manufactured was located in Fremont(production ceased in 1993). Other semiconductor and telecommunications firms soon opened in the city, including Cirrus Logic, Asyst Technologies, Mattson Technology, Lam Research, Premisys Communications, and Nextlink California. Approximately 750 high tech companies had offices, headquarters or production facilities in Fremont by 1999. These firms included fifteen of the top one hundred fastest-growing public companies in the San Francisco Bay Area and eighteen of the top fifty companies in the East Bay."
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Interesting. Thanks.
It is the closest East Bay city to Silicon Valley, and is thus sometimes associated with it.
A 10 minute commute by car, or better yet by bike, may no longer be feasible for most who work in silicon valley. For those of us who worked at the Stanford Research Institute (now SRI), Atherton, Menlo Park, Palo Alto, Portola Valley, or Woodside were the choice places to live, but all are quite pricy now.
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Fremont is across the bay from what has been traditionally considered silicon valley, towns on the SF peninsula mostly south of Palo Alto and Stanford like Mountain View and Cupertino. But it's been nearly two decades since we lived in the hills above Stanford, so what's considered silicon valley may have expanded. The VC capital used to be on Sand Hill Road near 280. Fremont is a long bridge ride away, but prices on the desirable peninsula may have driven expansion to the east bay.
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You're right. I tend to lump all the tech companies up there as being in Silicon Valley. It's been over a couple decades since I've lived in N.CA. I lived in Davis, Concord, Pleasant Hill, Pleasanton, then Mountain View. After moving from Davis, I worked in San Jose and Mountain View.
Car pooling into work from the East Bay area was always an adventure trying to navigate and reroute based on the traffic jam reports heard on the radio. ;-)
Thank You! Abe.
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