Presentation to Arab Trade Delegation to Silicon Valley Jan. 15 2014 History of how Silicon Valley became Silicon Valley Arab potential for tech development Why joint ventures with Silicon Valley

1. HIGH TECH ROAD SHOW
SILICON VALLEY
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JANUARY 15, 2014
BILL QUIRK PH. D. ASTROPHYSICS
CALIFORNIA ASSEMBLY MEMBER 20TH DISTRICT
REPRESENTING HAYWARD, FREMONT, UNION CITY AND MOST OF
UNINCORPORATED ALAMEDA COUNTY

2. ALAAM U ALAIKUM
AH-LAN WIH SAH-LAN
ANA ISS-ME BILL QUIRK
PEACE BE WITH YOU
WELCOME
MY NAME IS BILL QUIRK

3. LINKING US AND ARAB TECHNOLOGY
• San Jose (Silicon Valley) Export Assistance Center
• California Chamber of Commerce
• Greater San Jose Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
• OSIsoft, Pat Kennedy, Nan Ramchandani

4. SILICON VALLEY WELCOMES ALL
• Multicultural International California
• Nationals of many nations are successful here
• Nationals of many nations take what they learn home

5. NAME OF CALIFORNIA ARABIC ORIGIN
• Spanish author García Ordóñez de Montalvo
• Spanish word califa, from the Arabic:
ḫalīfah/khalīfah, the head of
state in a Caliphat
• Legacy of the Moorish empire within Spain from 757 to 1492
• A word as ancient as the Quran

6. BILL QUIRK
• PhD Astrophysicist: Columbia U., CalTech, UC Davis
• NASA Climate Research
• Management Consultant with McKinsey & Company
• Silicon Valley: Amdahl Corporation
• Lawrence Livermore National Lab

7. LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LAB
• Climate Research
• Nuclear Weapon Design
• Broke Deadlock in Nuclear Weapon Test Ban Treaty
• Iraq Inspector
• People wanted peace and friendship with US
• Got President Clinton and UN to agree no Iraqi Nuclear Weapon Program
• Unfortunately George W. Bush made his own reality

8. HOW DID I GET INTO POLITICS
• Life is politics
• Oldest of 7, so took responsibility
• Electoral engagement started in college

9. HAYWARD CITY COUNCIL
• Public Safety
• Business development
• Sister Cities
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Japan
Afghanistan
China

10. STATE ASSEMBLY
• Simplify government
• Meet greenhouse gas goals in a way that can be transferred to the
rest of world
Note: Innovation at Middle Eastern oil refineries − Solar energy
displaces natural gas, lowering carbon content of products

11. PATH TO SILICON VALLEY (LATE START)
• 1951 transistor invented by William Shockley, John Bardeen, Walter Brattain
• 1952 Ed Quirk (my dad) sets up first production line for transistors at Transistor
Products Incorporated in Brighten MA (used germanium)
• 1954 Texas Instruments produces silicon transistor
• 1956 Shockley comes home to Palo Alto to take care of his mother and founds
Shockley Semiconductors to produce transistors
• Most Silicon Valley companies founded by engineers who Shockley recruited
• Would we have Silicon Valley if Shockley’s mother had not needed care?

12. PATH TO SILICON VALLEY
• 1957 “Traitorous Eight” leave Shockley Semiconductor because of his
harsh management style
• 1957 “Traitorous Eight” get funding from Sherman Fairchild to Found
Fairchild Semiconductor
• Late 1950s
Shockley offers job to my Dad, Ed Quirk
• Dad was excited that the inventor of the transistor wanted him, but told me
Shockley was a failed business man, who he could not work for.
• 1968 Fairchild’s Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore found Intel
• 1969 Other Fairchild veterans found AMD

13. PATH TO SILICON VALLEY
• 1961 Ed Quirk becomes general manager of Rheem Semiconductor,
major competitor to Fairchild
• 1963 Fairchild and Rheem (As told by Ed Quirk)
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Both companies suffering from recession
Both companies need big defense contract to stay solvent
Fairchild gets contract
Rheem falters financially bought by Raytheon
My family leaves Bay Area
What would have happened had Fairchild not won contract?

14. PATH TO SILICON VALLEY (SUMMATION)
• William Shockley
• Great weather
• Great Universities: Stanford, UC Berkeley, San Jose State
Engineering School
• Growth of Venture Capitol

15. ARAB WORLD TECH ON ITS WAY UP
• Human capital
• Financial capital
• Amman Jordan named 10th best city 4 tech startups
• Rachid Sefrioui, the founder of Finaventures
• public-private partnership plan
• Both ends of partnership contribute and benefit
• Partnering with Silicon Valley way to grow

16. WHY PARTNER WITH BAY AREA AND
SILICON VALLEY?
• #1 in US
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Venture Capital
Tech Jobs
Almost 30% of Bay Area jobs are in Tech
10 Bay Area towns in top 20 for producing patents
• Wide range of tech represented
• Culture of risk taking and success

17. WHY PARTNER WITH BAY AREA AND
SILICON VALLEY?
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Educated People Willing to Take Risk
Venture Capital
Law
Manufacturing
Software
Internet
Social Media
Games
Culture

18. FORTUNE 1000 HQ
Adobe Systems, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Agilent
Technologies, Apple Inc., Applied Materials, Brocade Communications
Systems, Cisco Systems, eBay, Facebook, Google, HewlettPackard, Intel, Intuit, Juniper Networks, KLA Tencor, LSI Logic, Marvell
Semiconductors, Maxim Integrated Products, National
Semiconductor, NetApp, Netflix, Nvidia, Oracle
Corporation, Salesforce.com, SanDisk, SanminaSCI, Symantec, Western Digital Corporation, Xilinx, Yahoo

19. OTHERS: NEARBY, PURCHASED,
BRANCHES
3Com, A10 Networks, Actel, Actuate Corporation, Adaptec, Aeria Games and Entertainment, Akamai
Technologies, Altera, Amazon.com, A9.com, Amazon.com's Lab126.com, Amdahl, Ampex, Antibody
Solutions, Aricent, Asus, Atari, Atmel, Broadcom, BEA Systems, Business Objects, Chegg, Cypress
Semiconductor, Dell, Electronic Arts, EMC Corporation, E*TRADE, Fairchild Semiconductor, Force10,
Foundry Networks, Fujitsu, Groupon, Hitachi Data Systems, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies,
IBM Almaden Research Center, IDEO, Informatica, Intuitive Surgical, Kerio Technologies, LinkedIn,
Logitech, LynuxWorks, Maxtor, McAfee, Memorex, Micron Technology, icrosoft, Mozilla Foundation,
Nokia, Nokia Siemens Networks, Netscape, NeXT Computer, Inc. Ning, NXP Semiconductors, Nook,
Olivetti, Opera Software, OPPO, Palm, Inc, Panasonic, PayPal, Philips Lumileds Lighting Company,
Playdom, PlayPhone, Qualcomm, Inc, Quanta Computer, Quantcast, Quora, Rambus, Riverbed
Technology, ROBLOX, RSA, Redback Networks, Samsung Electronics, SAP AG, Siemens, Silicon
Graphics, Silicon Image, Solectron, Solstice, Sony, Sony Ericsson, SRI International, Sun
Microsystems, SunPower, Synopsys Inc.,Tata Consultancy Services, Tibco Software, Tesla Motors,
Tellme, TiVo, Twitter, VA Software, VeriSign, Veritas Software, Vmware, Vocera, WebEx, YouTube,
Yelp, Inc., Zoran Corporation
US and Non-US Auto Manufacturers
Biotech, Energy etc.

20. TECH DEVELOPMENT PROVIDES
ECONOMIC ENGINE
• Bay Area leading rest of state out of recession
• Tech development needed around the world

21. STRENGTH IN PARTNERSHIP
• Growth through trade
• Efficiency
• Two way street
• 1950s Japan learned from US
• 1970s US learned from Japan
• Joint ventures can help all