HIGH TECH ROAD SHOWSILICON VALLEY.JANUARY 15, 2014

BILL QUIRK PH. D. ASTROPHYSICS

CALIFORNIA ASSEMBLY MEMBER 20TH DISTRICT

REPRESENTING HAYWARD, FREMONT, UNION CITY AND MOST OF UNINCORPORATED ALAMEDA COUNTY

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ALAAM U ALAIKUMAH-LAN WIH SAH-LANANA ISS-ME BILL QUIRKPEACE BE WITH YOUWELCOMEMY NAME IS BILL QUIRK

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

SILICON VALLEY WELCOMES ALL

• Multicultural International California

• Nationals of many nations are successful here

• Nationals of many nations take what they learn home

NAME OF CALIFORNIA ARABIC ORIGIN

•  Spanish author García Ordóñez de Montalvo

• Spanish word califa, from the Arabic: خليفة 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

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

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

HOW DID I GET INTO POLITICS

• Life is politics

• Oldest of 7, so took responsibility

• Electoral engagement started in college

HAYWARD CITY COUNCIL

• Public Safety

• Business development

• Sister Cities

• Japan

• Afghanistan

• China

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

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?

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

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)

• 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?

PATH TO SILICON VALLEY (SUMMATION)

• William Shockley

• Great weather

• Great Universities: Stanford, UC Berkeley, San Jose State Engineering School

• Growth of Venture Capitol

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

WHY PARTNER WITH BAY AREA AND SILICON VALLEY?

• #1 in US

• 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

WHY PARTNER WITH BAY AREA AND SILICON VALLEY?• Educated People Willing to Take Risk

• Venture Capital

• Law

• Manufacturing

• Software

• Internet

• Social Media

• Games

• Culture

FORTUNE 1000 HQ

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

OTHERS: NEARBY, PURCHASED, BRANCHES3Com, 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.

TECH DEVELOPMENT PROVIDES ECONOMIC ENGINE

• Bay Area leading rest of state out of recession

• Tech development needed around the world

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