Question: What is the population of the area in New York that competes with Silicon Valley?
Context: Robins Kaplan LLP is a litigation-focused law firm.  Currently, the firm has 220+ lawyers in six offices nationwide with locations in Minneapolis, Minnesota; Boston, Massachusetts; Los Angeles, California; Silicon Valley, California; New York, New York; and Naples, Florida.  Founded in Minneapolis in 1938 as Robins & Davis, the firm has gained national recognition for its trial work in Intellectual property, Business Litigation, Antitrust, Entertainment and Media Law, and Mass tort.  The firm has also provided pro bono representations. Silicon Peach is a term used to refer to Atlanta, Ga. and the concentration of high tech development in the area.  The term is a continuation of the reference following Silicon Valley (California), Silicon Alley (New York), then Silicon Beach (Los Angeles).  Atlanta has long been a high tech center.  Some of the traditional engines of technology development in Atlanta have been the ATDC at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG). Achronix Semiconductor is a fabless semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, California with an additional R&D facility in Bangalore, India, and an additional sales office in Shenzhen, China.  Achronix is a diversified fabless semiconductor company that sells high-end FPGA products, embedded FPGA (eFPGA) products, system-level products and supporting design tools.  Achronix was founded in 2004 in Ithaca, New York based on technology licensed from Cornell University.  The company has been a consistent technology innovator in the FPGA market since moving its headquarters to Silicon Valley in 2006.  Achronix has been prominently featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and hundreds of global technology publications. Saratoga is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States.  It is located on the west side of the Santa Clara Valley, directly west of San Jose, in the San Francisco Bay Area.  The population was 29,926 at the 2010 census.  Located on the Western edge of the Silicon Valley, Saratoga is known locally for its suburban small-town feel, wineries, and high-end restaurants.  Major attractions of Saratoga include Villa Montalvo, Hakone Gardens, and the Mountain Winery. The Tri-Cities, also known as Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo or Kitchener-Waterloo, is a metropolitan area located in Southern Ontario, Canada.  It is centred on the cities of Kitchener, Cambridge, and Waterloo.  These cities, as well as surrounding rural municipalities, collectively make up the Regional Municipality of Waterloo.  The census metropolitan area (CMA) had a population of 523,894 in 2016, making it the fourth largest metropolitan area in Ontario, after Toronto, Ottawa and Hamilton, and the tenth largest metropolitan area in the country.  The tri-cities area is known for its high concentration of information technology companies – including BlackBerry Limited, OpenText, Kik, and Maplesoft – leading it to be frequently characterized as "Canada's Silicon Valley".  The Tri-Cities are also university towns with a large student population from the University of Waterloo, Wilfrid Laurier University, and Conestoga College. Tech Valley began as a marketing name for the eastern part of the U.S. state of New York, encompassing the Capital District and the Hudson Valley.  Originated in 1998 to promote the greater Albany area as a high-tech competitor to regions such as Silicon Valley and Boston, the moniker subsequently grew to represent the counties in New York between IBM's Westchester County plants in the south and the U.S.-Canadian border to the north, and has since evolved to constitute both the technologically-oriented metonym and the geographic territory comprising most of New York State north of New York City.  The area's high technology ecosystem is supported by technologically-focused academic institutions including Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the State University of New York Polytechnic Institute.  Tech Valley grew from encompassing 19 counties straddling both sides of the Adirondack Northway and the New York Thruway, and with heavy state taxpayer subsidy, has experienced significant growth in the computer hardware side of the high-technology industry, with great strides in the nanotechnology sector, digital electronics design, and water- and electricity-dependent integrated microchip circuit manufacturing, involving companies including IBM in Armonk and its Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, GlobalFoundries in Malta, and others.  As of 2015, venture capital investment in Tech Valley had grown to US$163 million.  Westchester County has developed a burgeoning biotechnology sector in the 21st century, with over US$1 billion in planned private investment as of 2016, earning the county the nickname "Biochester". The Capital District, also known as the Capital Region, refers to the metropolitan area surrounding Albany, the capital of the U.S. state of New York.  With a population of 1,170,483 (2013), the Capital District is the fourth largest metropolitan region in the state and the 45th largest in the country.  Companies that have headquarters in Albany include CommerceHub and the Environment One Corporation.  In the 21st century, the Capital District has emerged as a major anchor of Tech Valley, the moniker describing the technologically-focused region of eastern New York State.  The Capital District was first settled by the Dutch in the early 17th century and came under British control in 1664.  Albany has been the permanent capital of the state of New York since 1797.  The Capital District is notable for many historical events that predate the independence of the United States, including the Albany Plan of Union and The Battles of Saratoga. Kataoka was born in Tokyo, Japan and spent her early childhood there.  Her family moved to Washington D.C., United States, then onto Seattle and later to Silicon Valley.  She attended high school at Sacred Heart Preparatory in Atherton, CA and college at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA.  She began her art education in Sumi-e early in Japan and later in the US, earning her han (signature stamp) from Sensei M. Iseke.  She is based in Silicon Valley, California but also travels extensively to New York, Tokyo and Europe. The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story is a book by Michael M. Lewis published in 1999 by W. W. Norton & Company.  The book focuses on the founder of several Silicon Valley companies, James H. Clark, and the entrepreneurial culture that dominated the area during the height of the Internet boom.  It was named one of the best books of 1999 by "BusinessWeek", "Christian Science Monitor", "St. Louis Post-Dispatch", and "Industry Standard". San Jose ( , Spanish for "Saint Joseph"; ] ), officially the City of San José, is the economic, cultural, and political center of Silicon Valley and the largest city in Northern California.  With an estimated 2015 population of 1,026,908, it is the third most populous city in California (after Los Angeles and San Diego) and the tenth most populous in United States.  Located in the center of the Santa Clara Valley, on the southern shore of San Francisco Bay.  San Jose covers an area of 179.97 mi2 .  San Jose is the county seat of Santa Clara County, the most affluent county in California and one of the most affluent counties in the United States.  San Jose is the largest city in both the San Francisco Bay Area and the San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland Combined Statistical Area, which contain 7.7 million and 8.7 million people respectively.
Answer: 1,170,483