Dallas-Fort Worth Silicon Prairie

North Texas's Silicon Prairie refers to north Dallas and Dallas and Fort Worth's northern suburbs, all part of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. It is named for the high concentration of semiconductor manufacturing, telecommunications, and other information technology related companies in the area.

Dallas area business in these industry sectors include:

Alcatel-Lucent (Richardson) AT&T (Dallas) Cisco (Richardson) CommScope (Richardson) CompuCom (Dallas) CSC (Fort Worth) Dell Services (Plano) Entrust (Addison) Ericsson (Richardson) Fujitsu Network Communications (Richardson) Hotels.com (Dallas) HP Enterprise Services (Plano) i2 Technologies (Irving) Match.com (Dallas) Microsoft (Irving) Motorola (Dallas) Nokia (Irving) Nortel (Richardson) NQ Mobile (Dallas) Okmetic (Allen) PivotPoint Solutions (Plano) RadioShack (Fort Worth) Raytheon (Plano) Research In Motion (Irving) Rockwell Collins (Richardson) StreamVenue, LLC (McKinney, Texas) Texas Instruments (Richardson) Thursby Software (Arlington) Travelocity (Southlake) Verizon Communications (Irving)

The Telecom Corridor in Richardson is usually considered an area within the Silicon Prairie. There are also a large amount of recognized video and computer game developers in the area, known as the Dallas Gaming Mafia, including Gearbox Software, id Software, 3D Realms, and Ensemble Studios.