Why are Intel AMD and Nvidia all located in Santa Clara?

[Gizmo j]

What's so special about Santa Clara?

 

[lxskllr]

Good taco trucks.

 

[BoomerD]

Federal law. Tech companies are limited to the Bay Area.

 

[IronWing]

Santa Clara is the patron saint of television, remote viewing, and extrasensory perception. It makes sense that video card companies would want her blessings and intercession.



And in case you are wondering, I already knew that she was the patron saint of television.

 

[sdifox]

How else can Max Zorin sink US semiconductor industry in one fell swoop?

 

[pete6032]

As previously mentioned, Santa Clara by far has the best taco trucks in the U.S. Why wouldn't you want to locate there?

 

[Greenman]

Look up Xerox Park and HP. It all starts there.

 

[Dr. Detroit]

Lets not forget about Applied Materials, also located in Santa Clara.

New Nvidia campus is pretty epic. Building II almost finished.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

Corner ho's are cheap and and easy.

 

[ultimatebob]

The Santa Clara high schools teach a lot of advanced math classes, obviously. As we've discussed before, you need those math classes before you can make mad bank at Nvidia.

Or, it could be the weather. Or the weed.

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

There was a Constitutional amendment requiring them and other tech companies to locate there. #37, I believe.

 

[JEDI]

What's so special about Santa Clara?

great hookers and blow because of the natural water quality around the area

 

[VirtualLarry]

Look up Xerox Park and HP. It all starts there.

I believe that was called Xerox PARC. Palo Alto Research Center.

 

[Torn Mind]

Because the Golden State is once again worth its weight in gold.

 

[Greenman]

I believe that was called Xerox PARC. Palo Alto Research Center.

And I believe you're right. Thanks for the correction.

 

[bbhaag]

^^I know right. VL was the acronym police on that one. Even though you spelled park wrong....well wait you didn't but anyway I knew what you meant.

 

[BoomerD]

Because the Golden State is once again worth its weight in gold.

All the gold in California is in a bank in the middle of Beverly Hills, in someone else's name.

 

[gorobei]

shockley in mountain view -> traitorous8 to fairchild in san jose ->intel in santa clara.
find the common link

 

[sdifox]

shockley in mountain view -> traitorous8 to fairchild in san jose ->intel in santa clara.
find the common link

Earthquakes?

 

[gorobei]

Earthquakes?

nah the sj quakes suck, they rarely make it to the playoffs.

 

[Torn Mind]

All the gold in California is in a bank in the middle of Beverly Hills, in someone else's name.

Gold need not be only the actual mineral.

Artistic gold(LA)
Techy gold(Silicon Valley)
Black gold(oil)
Even just having 40 million to themselves is gold because they got dollars to be taxed.
And personally, Jim Rome is the best reporter in the world.
The most powerful state in the free world.

 

[BoomerD]

Gold need not be only the actual mineral.

Artistic gold(LA)
Techy gold(Silicon Valley)
Black gold(oil)
Even just having 40 million to themselves is gold because they got dollars to be taxed.
And personally, Jim Rome is the best reporter in the world.
The most powerful state in the free world.

 

[IronWing]

My understanding this that when the lights go down in the California town there may very well be people out there turning music into gold.

 

[sdifox]

nah the sj quakes suck, they rarely make it to the playoffs.

Because of the earthquakes duh.

 

[quikah]

Look up Xerox Park and HP. It all starts there.

While HP was founded earlier, they didn't really do anything WRT semiconductors until ~1960. It really started in 1956 with Shockley Semiconductor which led to Fairchild Semiconductor.

Really I think it is Stanford University which led to all this.