2014-02-09
260Лекція № 9
International technology centers
World Electronics Industry
By the end of 2005, China accounts for 16% of global electronics output. Other Asian countries have an established electronics industry that plays a key role in the global electronics industry. South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan are all ranked in the top 10 countries in terms of production.
Despite the migration of production to low-cost locations, the United States remains the world's leading producer of electronics, accounting for 21% of global production in 2004.
Silicon Valley is the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California in the United States. The term originally referred to the region's large number of silicon chip innovators and manufacturers, but eventually became a metaphor for all high tech businesses in the area.
Thousands of high technology companies are headquartered in Silicon Valley; among those, the following are in the Forbes 500:
· Adobe Systems
· Apple Computer
· eBay
· Hewlett-Packard
· Intel
· Oracle Corporation
· Siebel Systems
· Symantec
· Yahoo!
Technology centers within the US
· Research Triangle - North Carolina
· Route 128 - Massachusetts (sometimes known as the "Silicon Valley of the East Coast")
· Silicon Alley - New York City
· Silicon Forest - Portland, Oregon
· Silicon Hills - Texas
· Telecom Corridor (Silicon Prairie) - Richardson, suburb of Dallas, Texas
· Tech Coast - Southern California
· Eastside - Puget Sound
Technology centers internationally
· Bangalore, India (The Silicon Valley of India)
· Chennai, India
· Hyderabad, India
· Dresden, Germany (The Silicon Valley of Germany)
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· Dublin, Ireland (The Silicon Valley of Europe, due to its high number of technological EMEA centres)
· Hsinchu Science Park - Hsinchu, Republic of China (Taiwan)
· M4 corridor - between London and Reading, United Kingdom
· Multimedia Super Corridor - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
· Silicon Valley North - National Capital Region around Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
· Sophia Antipolis - between Nice and Cannes, France
· Wireless Valley - Stockholm, Sweden
· Zhong Guan Cun - Beijing, China
· Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico (The Silicon Valley of Mexico)
· Zhangjiang High Tech Park, Shanghai, China
· Dubai Internet City, Dubai, UAE
Крупнейшие производители телекоммуникационного оборудования (исключая телефоны) в мире (по показателю оборота за 2005 год, млрд. долл., IDATE + данные компаний):
1. Cisco Systems – около 28
2. Alcatel + Lucent - 25
3. Ericsson - 21
4. Siemens – около 14
5. Nortel - 11
6. Motorola - 9
7. Nokia – 7,5
8. Huawei – 7,5
9. Fujitsu – 3,5
Учбовий час – 2 год.
