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Silicon Valley
noun
- the area in northern California, southwest of San Francisco in the Santa Clara valley region, where many of the high-technology design and manufacturing companies in the semiconductor industry are concentrated.
Silicon Valley
noun
- an industrial strip in W California, extending S of San Francisco, in which the US information technology industry is concentrated
- any area in which industries associated with information technology are concentrated
Silicon Valley
- A region on the San Francisco Peninsula in California where the miniaturized electronics industry is centered, so called because most of the devices built there are made of semiconductors such as silicon .
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Silicon Valley1
Example Sentences
John Markoff argues that the rise of tech hubs like Silicon Valley owes much more to serendipity than their boosters like to admit.
A well-funded Silicon Valley startup now says it has a battery that will make electric vehicles far more palatable for the mass consumer.
Others were all too conscious of Silicon Valley’s checkered reputation when it came to privacy.
Silicon Valley, in many ways, owes its very existence to the mystique that first emerged in the 1970s, creating a magnetic force that has continuously pulled the best and the brightest from all over the world.
Since around the mid-2000s—shortly after our first TR10 list—growth in TFP has been sluggish and disappointing, especially given the flood of new technologies coming from places like Silicon Valley.
A brilliant Silicon Valley entrepreneur may have found a way to get dark money out of politics without changing any laws.
Greer is a young, entrepreneurial, poker-loving Texan who ended up in Silicon Valley.
In Silicon Valley proper, that number increases to $108,603, marking a 7.2 percent year-over-year increase.
Normally Democratic Silicon Valley opened up its wallets to the Republicans this time out.
South of Silicon Valley, an entire town is being deformed, slowly, by plate tectonics.
He was still wearing the blue blazer and khakis he wore on the days that he was consulting in Silicon Valley.
The "Silicon Valley" revolution is likely to continue increasing computer capacity on an almost annual basis.
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