PHOENIX — Salesforce’s annual San Francisco mega-conference drew more political attention than usual this week due to CEO Marc Benioff’s newfound support for Donald Trump and bringing National Guard troops into the city.
But another tech affair skipped town entirely this year for the first time in its five-decade-long history. Instead, representatives from Silicon Valley’s homegrown companies like Intel and Nvidia joined more than 20,000 attendees who descended on Phoenix last week for SEMICON West — North America’s largest trade conference for the semiconductor industry.
For now, they’re expected to run it back at the iconic San Francisco venue, the Moscone Center, next October, under a recent five-year deal to rotate between the two metros…