A nickname originally for the region of the San Francisco Bay Area in which there are a high number of industries producing silicon chips and later extended to mean the entire concentration of high-tech businesses in this area.
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Origin of Silicon Valley
From "Silicon Valley USA", the title of a series of articles appearing in 1971 in Electronic News by the journalist Don Hoefler, from silicon, the element used by these industries + valley from Santa Clara Valley, the area where many of these industries are located
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Silicon Valley Sentence Examples
Tony, Daniel, and Brad all grew up in this suburb of the Silicon Valley area and began their interest in filmmaking at a very young age.
This cool climate wine region includes the Santa Cruz Mountains north of Monterey and has a few wineries in the hills straddling the Pacific and Silicon Valley.
David Dean, without a remote control, had difficulty with the TV and these two old fogies were out surfing the net like a couple of Silicon Valley youngsters.
The creation of an Asian Silicon Valley is itself inherently political.
What I do sense is that some new Rough Beast Operating System is even now slouching around in Silicon Valley.
