Silicon Valley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Silicon Valleys
form: Silicone Valley
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, an important element in semiconductor manufacturing + valley from Santa Clara Valley, the area where many of these industries are located.
Senses: examples: text: The community of radio amateurs—trespassing fiddlers on the cutting edge of technological possibilities—prefigured the geek community that was to inhabit Silicon Valley 50 years later.
ref: 2012, Fiorenza Belussi, Udo Hermann Staber, Managing Networks of Creativity, page 92:
text: 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.
ref: 2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
text: CEO and cofounder Alex Karp distanced Palantir from other Silicon Valley technology companies in a letter included in the filing, writing that “we seem to share fewer and fewer of the technology sector’s values and commitments.”
ref: 2020 August 25, Sara Ashley O'Brien and Rachel Metz, “Palantir files paperwork to go public and reveals it has never turned a profit”, in CNN Business:
glosses: Originally, the region of the San Francisco Bay Area in which there were a high number of industries producing silicon chips; later extended to mean the entire concentration of high-tech businesses in this area.
glosses: The tech industry, especially the American tech industry specifically.
examples: text: The belief in the early 1980s among many European pundits that a series of European Silicon Valleys could be developed before the end of the decade flew in the face of all the United States evidence.
ref: 1995 March 16, Ray P Oakey, High-Technology New Firms: Variable Barriers To Growth, SAGE Publications Limited:
glosses: A tech industry cluster in another country, developed as a competitor to the original Silicon Valley.
Derived terms: Mexican Silicon Valley
Silicone Valley
Silicon Valley North
Silicon Valley of Europe
Silicon Valley of India
Silicon Valley of Sweden
Silicon Valley of the East Coast
Related terms: word: Cwm Silicon
word: Silicon Alley
word: Silicon Beach
word: Silicon Docks
word: Silicon Fen
word: Silicon Forest
word: Silicon Glen
word: Silicon Hills
word: Silicon Mallee
word: Silicon Prairie
word: Silicon Roundabout
word: Silicon Sentier
word: Silicon Wadi
english: Siliconia
translation: Siliconia
urls: http://www.tbtf.com/siliconia.html
word: A comprehensive list of
english: 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
translation: 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
urls: http://www.tbtf.com/siliconia.html
word: place names modelled on