Phoenix's New 6th C: Chips Crash Cotton's Ancient Club

KEY POINTS

•Arizona's traditional economic drivers include cotton, cattle, citrus, copper, and climate, historically called the 'five C's'.
•Semiconductor factories are rapidly emerging in the greater Phoenix area under new streets named after microchip parts.
•Developers are accelerating plans for mixed-use residential and industrial zones to house workers near new chip manufacturers.
•Thomas Maynard, a senior business executive, promotes 'chips' as potentially Arizona's new defining economic 'C'.

Arizona proudly traded its classic 'five C's'—cotton, cattle, citrus, copper, and climate—for a silicon uprising as semiconductor plants sprout faster than cactus flowers in Phoenix. Roads have gotten a tech glow-up with names like 'Processor Parkway' and 'Transistor Terrace,' because why settle for American Indian-inspired names when you can honor microchips? Developers, fueled by visions of chips and drooling workers, plan futuristic mixed-use 'company towns' near fabs, basically building Apple's dream after it stopped connecting their devices for three days. Thomas Maynard, Greater Phoenix's SVP of Business Dev, champions this shift to tech glory, hoping 'chips' prove the 6th C worthy of desert royalty in 2025's casino of industries.

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From cotton fields to microchips: Phoenix's latest glow-up involves turning deserts into Processor Parkways—because nothing says tech chic like naming roads after tiny electronic crumbs.

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