Silicon Valley nerds become lonelier ever Fry’s Electronics Shut down February 2021 between the pandemic. Electronics store chain is a contents of tech drugs in the valley.
but Micro CenterAn electronics retailer from Ohio, opens its 29th store in Santa Clara, California. And therefore the kingdom of the nerd returned. I saw it as a big deal, followed the Nintendo Store opening – the second nation after New York – in San Francisco early this month. After years of poor economic newspaper, it is good to see signs that the Bay Area will return.
But it’s not any store. This is a symbol – a sign showing tech has a physical presence in Silicon Valley, in addition to areas like Bucks restaurant, the Denny’s Where did Nvidia, the Intel Museum, the Museum in computer historyThe California Academy of Sciences and The The Museum of Innovation Tech. Other historic hangouts for techies like Walter Walker WalksAtari’s head, Lion & Compass – even circuit city – it’s been a long time. But hey, we got the micro center store, and the Apple Spaceship That’s not far away.
The big week of opening well and I have a tour of the superstore from Dan Acergan, a veteran tech reporter who is chief-in-chief at Micro Center News. As I walked to the area, Acerman ends a chat with IFIXIT, a publication of tech healing with its own space for podcasts inside the store. That’s unexpected, as I haven’t seen a store accepting social media in such a way.
Nearby is the knowledge of the bar, where you get all the tech questions answered – like the Genius bars in Apple Stores. And there were fixes in the tables outside.
There are many things for tech enthusiasts who like the micro center. First, it’s not like draining fried, with a zany theme like ancient Egypt and an amazing mixture of electronic tools, cosmetics, magazines and tons of snack food. . Fry is a store of stereotyped nerds and Silicon Valleys, with its own HBO television shown to be carried by stereotypes.
The micro center store, which is contrary, fewer than 40,000 square feet and stocked with many practical nerd items. For Grand Openang, this store has a practical product of over 4,000 graphics processing units (GPU) in its NVIDIA 50 Seriese GPUs) and IBMAcerman told me. Some of the graphics cards are worth $ 4,000.
“There are people waiting to go to GPUs,” Ackerman said.
On display a gold-based card sold for charity. Jensen Huang, Nviaia CEO signed it.
“I scorn that anyone who wins the bid should also get a jensen leather jacket,” says Ackerman.
And this micro center store has a great location (5201 Stevens Creek Boulevard of Santa Clara) that only one minute drive from Apple walk from Korea Hair Salon.
Micro Center has a previous store in Silicon Valley, near Intel’s Hedquarter in Santa Clara. But that store near 2012 because the company does not negotiate with better terms of the landlord. For the return of this in the Bay area, the micro center valued its time and returned to a time when many bonds of the bound failed. It proves that the former proud region – the birthplace of electronics – still uses its own electronics store.
Sure, we have a target, best shopping and Walmart selling many electronics accessories. But there is nothing like Akihabara Electronics District in Japan, full of electronics stores in multi-story and gaming arcades.
But this store is full of modern top gear, like AI PCs, uberight home networking gear, and dyes of color cooloring in water. Tenders like Razer and Logitech have their own sections. Ackerman is pleased to show me USB-C to USB-an adapter in stock, among many unspeakable things. And he showed me the inventory machine that can turn to stocks of these filaments in 3D printing and give you the exact SKU you scan in a bar code.
“That’s Super Fun. I call it Mr. Filament,” said Ackerman invented the inventory.
There is a section for hobbyists who want to compute single-board computation and DIY. There is a set of video, audio and digital content creative tools for content creators. Everyone says, there are over 20,000 products and over 100 tech experts to help. This is even the number of Cashier locations where you can check – the same type of checkout with frives with.
Customers can receive authorized computer services for brands such as Apple, Dell, and HP, which benefited from the same diagnostics and healing more than 3,000 parts through the aggregate of leading oehems. I just want it to have a help with help for Comcast.
Micro Center began in 1979 in Columbus, Ohio. It’s a surprise that no many nerd stores, given how ubiquitous tech around the world these days.
But Ackerman said, “These guys really do right, choose, finding the right places in tech.
“Although this shop is large, the CEO (Richard Mershad) is true in cursing, make sure you don’t go to the far coming.” You can see the computer’s house, and the Gear of the DIY. There are substances, like a radio shack, that hobbyists think. “
Like for Micro Center News, Ackerman told me about 10 regular contributors and 20 more gadgets writes gadget gadgets and other stories about tech gear. This is a type of refuge for that perishable breed of professional tech journalists. It is not surprised that I am the nostalgic visit to the micro center.
