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How Silicon Valley Got That Way -- and Why It Will Continue To Rule
An anonymous reader writes: Lots of places want to be 'the next Silicon Valley.' But the Valley's top historian looks back (even talks to Steve Jobs about his respect for the past!) to explain why SV is unique. While there are threats to continued dominance, she thinks it's just too hard for another region to challenge SV's supremacy.
The most advanced silicon chip manufacturing plant in the world is in Chandler, Arizona, and the wafers made there are packaged into processors in Malaysia and Ireland. Many materials scientists work at the Chandler plant, not in Sunnyvale, because it's so much less expensive to live there.
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.