Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley is a nickname of the southern half of the San Francisco Peninsula coined by journalist Don C. Hoefler in 1971. It reaches approximately from Menlo Park down to San Jose, centered roughly on Sunnyvale. It was named for the high concentration of semiconductor and computer related industry in the area. The term may also be applied to surrounding areas on both sides of the bay into which many of these industries have expanded.

Industries include (in alphabetic order): Apple Computer, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Oracle, Sun Microsystems.

Cities include (in alphabetic order): Alviso, Atherton, Cupertino, Fremont, Los Altos, Los Gatos, Menlo Park, Mountain View, Milpitas, Newark, Palo Alto, San Jose, Santa Clara, Saratoga, Sunnyvale, Union City

Many cities, regions, and nations around the world have tried to copy the success of the Silicon Valley. Some of them are:

• Stockholm, Sweden, wants to be known as the Wireless Valley.
• Silicon Alley - New York City, New York, Broadway from the Flatiron District to TriBeCa.
• Silicon Forest - Portland, Oregon
• Brazilian Silicon Valley - Campinas
• Silicon Sentier - France

External link

• Siliconia list: http://www.tbtf.com/siliconia.html