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Proponents Believe Pittsburgh Digital Greenhouse Worth Keeping.
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Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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April 15, 2004
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By Corilyn Shropshire, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Apr. 15--Nearly five years ago, the Pittsburgh Digital Greenhouse was launched with high hopes and fanfare, spurring stories of a sputtering steel town seeking to reinvent itself as bubbling micro-chip hub. That, of course, was before the economy tanked, taking with it visions of the region turning into a flourishing semiconductor and tech job mill.
But could the recent sale of one Digital Greenhouse member to another -- O'Hara-based electronic design hardware maker Neolinear Inc. to San Jose, Calif.-based Cadence Design Systems -- signal that the region's fledgling microchip ...