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Established in 2004, Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority (DSOA) (www.dso.ae) is wholly owned by the Government of Dubai providing both a living and working integrated community. Silicon Oasis is a Free Zone Authority and provides free zone incentives and benefits to companies operating within the tech park.
Dubai Silicon Oasis’ (DSO) spans 7.2 square kilometres. The Authority has made a large capital investment in its infrastructure to cater to the need of high tech industries in the free zone, this ranges from advanced telecommunications, a fibre optic network, tier 3 data centre with 120 high capacity racks, and a high-tech utility infrastructure with 8 power stations with a capacity of 1,600 mega watts.
DSO has created a hi-tech eco-system in order to promote technological collaboration and innovation. DSO identifies six key elements for its high-tech ecosystem: large enterprises, start ups & medium-sized businesses, universities and an incubation centre, venture capital funds, a hi-tech infrastructure and government & business services.
Dubai Circuit Design Centre - Dubai Circuit Design Centre (DCDC) (www.dcd.ae) is the region’s first advanced integrated circuit (IC) design centre.
Present big companies in DSO
Philips, Fujitsu, AMD, Western Digital, Synopsys, Corning and Schneider Electric are some of the companies operating in Dubai Silicon Oasis. Companies that are able to operate at DSO include those in the following sectors:
A) IT, telecom, electrical, electronic, engineering and related activities e.g. mobile and internet technologies, software, data centre and arabized/localised technologies.
B)Consultants, law firms, finance institutions, etc.
C) Bio-tech, automobile, aerospace, oil and gas, alternative energy and many others
All major activities of doing business can be accommodated within DSO including:
- Company headquarter offices, sales & marketing, support offices training, etc.
- Import/export, distribution, testing and checking, labelling, packaging.
- Assembly
- Manufacturing
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