Silicon Valley

English

Alternative forms

• Silicone Valley (misspelling)

Etymology

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.

Proper noun

Silicon Valley

1. (informal) Originally, the region of the San Francisco Bay Area in which there are a high number of industries producing silicon chips; later extended to mean the entire concentration of high-tech businesses in this area.
   • 2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:

     Since the launch early last year of Udacity and Coursera, two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.

Derived terms

• Mexican Silicon Valley
• Silicone Valley
• Silicon Valley North
• Silicon Valley of India
• Silicon Valley of Sweden
• Silicon Valley of the East Coast

 

Related terms

• Cwm Silicon
• Silicon Alley
• Silicon Beach
• Silicon Fen
• Silicon Forest
• Silicon Glen
• Silicon Hills
• Silicon Mallee
• Silicon Prairie
• Silicon Sentier
• Silicon Wadi

 

Translations

nickname for region in San Francisco

• Arabic: وَادِي اَلسِّيلِكُون m (wādī s-silikūn)
• Armenian: Սիլիկոնային հովիտ (Silikonayin hovit)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 硅谷 (zh) (Guīgǔ)

• Czech: Silicon Valley, Křemíkové údolí n
• Finnish: Piilaakso (fi)
• French: Silicon Valley f, Vallée du Silicium f
• Georgian: სილიციუმის ველი (siliciumis veli), სილიკონის ველი (siliḳonis veli)
• German: Silicon Valley n, Silizium-Tal n
• Hebrew: עמק הסיליקון
• Hindi: सिलिकॉन वैली (silikŏn vailī)
• Hungarian: Szilícium-völgy
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• Italian: Silicon Valley (it) f
• Japanese: シリコンバレー (Shirikonbarē)
• Korean: 실리콘 밸리 (Sillikon Baelli)
• Mongolian: Цахиурын хөндий (Caxiuryn xöndii)
• Persian: درهٔ سیلیکون (darre-ye silikon)
• Polish: Dolina Krzemowa f
• Portuguese: Vale do Silício m
• Russian: Силико́новая доли́на (ru) f (Silikónovaja dolína), Кре́мниевая доли́на (ru) f (Krémnijevaja dolína)
• Spanish: Silicon Valley m, Valle del Silicio m
• Turkish: Silikon Vadisi
• Uyghur: كرېمنىي جىلغىسى (krëmniy jilghisi), سىلىتسىي جىلغىسى (silitsiy jilghisi)

See also

• A comprehensive list of "Siliconia", place names modelled on "Silicon Valley" (Note: these place names are of varying degrees of currency and so have not been copied into the lists of derived and related terms above)

Further reading

• Silicon Valley on Wikipedia.Wikipedia