Silicon slopes

Silicon Slopes refers to the metropolitan area that primarily originates in the Salt Lake City, Utah, metropolitan area but also includes Provo, Utah, and Park City, Utah, and surrounding areas. Served by the Salt Lake City International Airport and less than a two-hour flight from Silicon Valley, CA, Silicon Slopes has been mentioned in news media, including NPR coverage about the NSA Utah Data Center in the region.

In reference to California's Silicon Valley, Utah's "Silicon Slopes" encompasses a cluster of information technology, software development, and hardware manufacturing and research firms along the Wasatch Front. In particular, this grouping includes memory process technology companies SanDisk and the Intel/Micron joint venture IM Flash Technologies, video game software development companies EA Sports and Disney Interactive Studios, and data analysis software including Adobe Systems.

It is one of a growing number of technology communities (List of places with "Silicon" names) and technology centers (List of technology centers) gaining status from their relationship to or similarity with Silicon Valley, California. Other examples include "Silicon Forest," a technology community in Hillsboro, Oregon, a suburb of western Portland.

The term Silicon Slopes is the brainchild of Josh James (founder and CEO of Domo) for the purpose of creating a branding campaign to promote Utah's growing technology community. The nickname is derived from the famous "Silicon Valley," substituting Utah's mountains (slopes) for Northern California's Santa Clara valley.

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