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Silicon Valley Silicon Valley lies in the South Bay and the southern Peninsula of the San Francisco Bay Area. Once best known for its prune orchards, the area underwent explosive growth with the creation of the high-tech industry in the 1960s.
Silicon Valley, Industrial region, west-central California.Roughly bounded by San Francisco Bay on the north, the Santa Cruz Mountains on the west, and the Diablo Range on the east, it takes its (unofficial) name from the extensive use of silicon in the region’s electronics industries.
"Silicon Valley", first used by Don C. Hoefler, publisher of Microelectronics News, in his article titled "Silicon Valley USA" on January 11, 1971, has become synonymous with the center of high technology research and development. "Silicon" refers to the high concentration of semiconductor and computer-related industries in the area at the time.
Jan 9, 2024 · 21 Saxenian, Regional Advantage; AnnaLee Saxenian, The New Argonauts: Regional Advantage in a Global Economy (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006); Kenney, Understanding Silicon Valley; and Chong-Moon Lee et al., eds., The Silicon Valley Edge: A Habitat for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000).
A Changing Valley. Change is good. That belief has been at the heart of Silicon Valley’s innovative tech culture since the beginning. In the 1970s Silicon Valley referred to a strip on the San Francisco Peninsula stretching some 17 miles from Palo Alto to San Jose and from the bay westward 7 miles, encompassing Sunnyvale and Cupertino.
Jun 9, 2016 · On “Silicon Valley,“ events like Code, organized by Kara Swisher, become realistic fiction. Here, Swisher and Walt Mossberg interview Elon Musk, in real life, and the character Gavin Belson ...
Mar 14, 2023 · The Federal Reserve announced Monday it has launched a review of the supervision and regulation of Silicon Valley Bank following the lender’s sudden implosion.; US and UK authorities have been ...
