Thung lung Silicon (tieng Anh: Silicon Valley; con đuoc nguoi My goc Viet goi la Thung lung Đien tu) la phan phia Nam cua vung vinh San Francisco tai phia Bac California o My. Ban đau ten nay đuoc dung đe chi mot so luong lon cac nha phat minh va hang san xuat cac loai chip silicon (bo xu ly vi mach bang silic), nhung sau đo no tro thanh cai ten hoan du cho tat ca cac khu thuong mai cong nghe cao (high tech) trong khu vuc.
Silicon Valley bao gom bo phan phia bac cua thung lung Santa Clara va mot so cong đong ke can cua mien nam ban đao Ban đao San Francisco cung Vinh Đong. Đia phan cua no keo dai uoc chung tu Menlo Park (nam tren ban đao) va Fremont/Newark tai Vinh Đong xuong thong qua San Jose, va điem trung tam cua no uoc chung la điem Sunnyvale o California. Đuong 17 la hanh lang thong qua day Santa Cruz vao đen Thung lung Scotts va Santa Cruz, trong quan Santa Cruz, la con đuong ma nhieu nguoi cho rang no truc thuoc đia phan cua Silicon Valley.


Nguon goc cua ten goi "Silicon Valley" la cai ten đuoc nha bao Don Hoefler đat cho vao nam 1971. Ong lay no lam tieu đe cho loat cac bai bao cua minh, goi ten la "Silicon Valley USA", đang trong thuong mai tuan bao Electronic News, khoi đau phat hanh vao ngay 11 thang 1 nam 1971.
Silicon am chi đen đo tap trung cao đo cua cac nganh cong nghiep lien quan đen cong nghe ban dan va cong nghe vi tinh trong vung. Chu Valley (thung lung) am chi đen thung lung Santa Clara, nam o cuc Nam cua vinh San Francisco.
Cai ten nay con co the đuoc ap dung đe chi cac vung lan can nam o hai ben vinh San Francisco. Tai đo, nhieu nganh cong nghiep đuoc phat trien mot cach nhanh chong. Ve đia ly ma noi, nep gap cua be mat Trai Đat tao nen Silicon Valley, cung đong thoi tao nen vinh San Francisco nua — đieu khac biet duy nhat giua chung la đo cao.
Trong rat nhieu nam giua hai thap nien 1970 va thap nien 1980, cac nha bao thuong nhac đen no voi cai ten Silicon Valley. Đay la cai ten nguoi ta dung truoc khi no tro thanh mot cai ten thong dung trong nen van hoa cua Hoa Ky. Do khong quen thuoc voi silic, cac tac gia viet bao chi thuong hieu nham no la mot chu đanh van sai cua chu silicon, mot chat lieu dung đe tret (caulking), đe bom nguc (breast implants) va con la chat lieu dung trong nhieu san pham khac đuoc gioi thieu voi cong chung gan đay.


Nhung tap đoan noi tieng Hang ngan tap đoan cong nghe co tru so o Silicon Valley; trong so đo, nhung ten sau đay nam trong danh sach Forbes 500:

Adobe Systems
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
Agilent Technologies
Altera
Apple Inc.
Applied Materials
BEA Systems
Cadence Design Systems
Cisco Systems
Corsair Memory
DreamWorks Animation
eBay
Electronic Arts
Facebook
Google
Hewlett-Packard
Intel
Intuit
Juniper Networks
Logitech
Maxtor
National Semiconductor
Network Appliance
NVIDIA
Oracle
Siebel Systems
Sun Microsystems
Symantec
Synopsys
Varian Medical Systems
Xilinx
Yahoo!
Them vao đo, cac tap đoan danh tieng co tru so o Silicon Valley bao gom (mot so khong con ton tai hay đa bi sap nhap):

Adaptec
Atmel
Cypress Semiconductor
Foundry Networks
McAfee
Knight-Ridder
LSI Logic
Netscape (đuoc AOL mua lai)
NeXT Computer, Inc. (bay gio la cua Apple)
Palm, Inc.
PalmSource, Inc.
PayPal
Rambus
Redback Networks
Sumco USA (truoc đay la Sumitomo)
Silicon Graphics
TiVo
3Com
VA Software (Slashdot)
VeriSign
Veritas Software (đuoc Symantec mua lai)
VMware (Đuoc Broadcom mua lai)
SV Probe
Phu hop voi ton chi cua minh, Silicon Valley cung la noi đat tru so chinh cua Fry's Electronics, mot cong ty bao gom nhieu sieu thi (superstore) ban cac vat lieu cong nghe cao high tech.
Danh sach cac tap đoan lon nhat, xem Category:Companies based in the Silicon Valley


Cac truong đai hoc Đai hoc Carnegie Mellon (West Coast Campus)
Đai hoc San Jose
Đai hoc Santa Clara
Đai hoc Stanford
Cac truong đai hoc sau đay khong co tru so o Silicon Valley, nhung co cac phuong tien dung cho nghien cuu va cho cac nguoi tot nghiep đai hoc:

Đai hoc Tieu bang California tai East Bay (California State University)
Đai hoc California tai Davis
Đai hoc California tai Berkeley
Đai hoc California tai Santa Cruz


Cac thanh pho Mot so thanh pho nam o Silicon Valley (theo thu tu bang chu cai):

Campbell
Cupertino
Los Altos
Los Gatos
Menlo Park
Mountain View
Milpitas
Palo Alto
Redwood City
San Jose
Santa Clara
Saratoga
Sunnyvale
Mot so thanh pho nam gan Silicon Valley co the đuoc xem thuoc vung nay:

Oakland
Hayward
Union
Fremont
Newark
Santa Cruz
Union


Cac trung tam cong nghe khac cung co ten valley Nhung nguoi phat trien ke hoach cua chinh phu va kinh doanh mang luoi thich su dung ten "valley" đe dien ta khu vuc cua ho giong nhu thanh qua đa đat đuoc cua Silicon Valley; vi du, the Vale do Aco.
Bangalore thuong đuoc goi la "Silicon Valley cua An Đo" boi vi no đa tro thanh mot trung tam cong nghe cao. Cung la noi đat đai ban doanh cua hon 1.000 cong ty cong nghe hang đau gom: IBM, Intel, Dell, Cisco, Sun Microsystems va Oracle. Boi noi đay co nguon nhan luc doi dao, von tieng Anh tot cung tien luong re bang 1/8 lan so voi My. Nhung neu so sanh voi Silicon Valley o California thi Bangalore can mot thoi gian dai đe bat kip. Silicon Valley noi tieng vi cac hoat đong kinh doanh manh me, nhung o Bangalore dan chung thich gia nhap cong ty hon la bat đau du an kinh doanh.


Ghi chu Tham khao Đoc them Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy, Garden City, New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday (1984)
Behind the Silicon Curtain: The Seductions of Work in a Lonely Era, Dennis Hayes, London: Free Association Books (1989)
Silicon Valley, Inc.: Ruminations on the Demise of a Unique Culture Luu tru ngay 2 thang 3 nam 2007 tai Wayback Machine, The San Jose Mercury News (1997)
Cultures@Silicon Valley, J. A. English-Lueck, Stanford: Stanford University Press (2002)
The Silicon Valley of Dreams: Environmental Injustice, Immigrant Workers, and the High-Tech Global Economy, David Naguib Pellow and Lisa Sun-Hee Park, New York University Press (2003)
What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry, John Markoff, Viking (2005)
Silicon Follies: A Dot.Comedy, Thomas Scoville, Pocket Books (2000)
The Silicon Boys: And Their Valleys Of Dreams, David A. Kaplan, Harper Perinneal (April 2000), ISBN 0-688-17906-1


Xem them = Cac trung tam cong nghe trong nuoc My =
Tam giac Nghien cuu (Research Triangle) - Bac Carolina
Route 128 - Massachusetts (con đuoc goi la "Thung lung Silicon bo bien mien Đong")
Ngo Silicon - New York
Rung Silicon - Portland, Oregon
Đoi Silicon - Texas
Telecom Corridor (Thao nguyen Silicon) - Richardson, ngoai o cua Dallas, Texas
Tech Coast - Southern California
Eastside - Puget Sound


= Cac trung tam cong nghe quoc te =
Bac thung lung Silicon - chung quanh Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Zhangjiang High Tech Park, Thuong Hai, Trung Quoc
Zhong Guan Cun - Bac Kinh, Trung Quoc
Hsinchu Science Park - Hsinchu, Đai Loan
Smart Village, Cairo, Ai Cap
Sophia Antipolis - giua Nice va Cannes, Phap
Dresden, Germany (Silicon Valley cua Đuc)
Bangalore, An Đo (Silicon Valley cua An Đo)
HITECH City, Hyderabad, An Đo
Dublin, Ireland (Silicon Valley cua chau Au)
Multimedia Super Corridor - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico (Silicon Valley cua Mexico)
Wireless Valley - Stockholm, Thuy Đien
Dubai Internet City, Dubai, Cac Tieu Vuong quoc A Rap Thong nhat
M4 corridor - giua Luan Đon va Reading, Anh Quoc
Campinas, Sao Paulo, Sao Jose dos Campos, Sao Carlos (Silicon Valley cua Brasil)


Lien ket ngoai Lich su thung lung may tinh (Silicon Valley) o California Luu tru ngay 8 thang 6 nam 2007 tai Wayback Machine
Tham khao ve Don Hoefler
Trang trong tam ve tin tuc Silicon Valley, backed by the San Jose Mercury News
Silicon Valley 150 for beginning of 2004 as a PDF file Luu tru ngay 17 thang 4 nam 2005 tai Wayback Machine
Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs
The Silicon Valley Cultures Project
Stanford Linear Accelerator center
The Silicon Valley Tarot (Humor)
Growth of a Silicon Empire Đuoc Henry Norr cong bo cuoi nam 1999 trong to San Francisco Chronicle
Douglas Engelbart
Red tile roofs in Bangalore: Stanford's look copied in Silicon Valley and beyond
Varian Brothers
Xerox PARC
Daily news from SiliconBeat