Silicon Valley

English thumb Alternative forms en 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 en silicon, an important element in semiconductor manufacturing + en valley from Santa Clara Valley, the area where many of these industries are located. Pronunciation en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Silicon Valley.wav Southern England Proper noun ~ silicon valley en informal 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. en 2012 Fiorenza Belussi; Udo Hermann Staber Managing Networks of Creativity 92 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. 2013-07-20 408 8845 http://www.economist.com/news/business/21582001-army-new-online-courses-scaring-wits-out-traditional-universities-can-they The attack of the MOOCs 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20180228204317/https://www.economist.com/news/business/21582001-army-new-online-courses-scaring-wits-out-traditional-universities-can-they 28 February 2018 Sara Ashley O'Brien; Rachel Metz Palantir files paperwork to go public and reveals it has never turned a profit https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/25/tech/palantir-prospectus 2020-08-25 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.” https://web.archive.org/web/20211124091914/https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/25/tech/palantir-prospectus/ en metonymically The tech industry, especially the American tech industry specifically. en countable A tech industry cluster in another country, developed as a competitor to the original Silicon Valley. en 1995-03-16 Ray P Oakey High-Technology New Firms: Variable Barriers To Growth SAGE Publications Limited 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. Derived terms en Mexican Silicon Valley Silicon Valley North Silicon Valley of India Silicon Valley of Sweden Silicon Valley of the East Coast Silicone Valley Silicon Valley of Europe Related terms en Cwm Silicon Silicon Alley Silicon Docks Silicon Fen Silicon Forest Silicon Glen Silicon Hills Silicon Prairie Silicon Mallee Silicon Sentier Silicon Wadi Silicon Beach Silicon Roundabout Translations nickname for region in San Francisco Arabic: ar وَادِي اَلسِّيلِكُون m wādī s-silikūn Armenian: hy Սիլիկոնային հովիտ Chinese: Cantonese: yue 矽谷 Mandarin: cmn 硅谷 Guīgǔ, cmn 矽谷 Czech: cs Silicon Valley, cs Křemíkové údolí n Finnish: fi Piilaakso French: fr Silicon Valley f, fr Vallée du Silicium f Georgian: ka სილიციუმის ველი, ka სილიკონის ველი German: de Silicon Valley n, de Silizium-Tal n Hebrew: he עמק הסיליקון Hindi: hi सिलिकॉन वैली Hungarian: hu Szilícium-völgy Italian: it Silicon Valley f Japanese: ja シリコンバレー Shirikonbarē Korean: ko ^실리콘 ^밸리 Mongolian: mn Цахиурын хөндий Persian: fa درهٔ سیلیکون darre-ye silikon Polish: pl Dolina Krzemowa f Portuguese: pt Vale do Silício m Russian: ru Силико́новая доли́на f, ru Кре́мниевая доли́на f Spanish: es Silicon Valley, es Valle del Silicio m Turkish: tr Silikon Vadisi Ukrainian: uk Кре́мнієва доли́на f Uyghur: ug كرېمنىي جىلغىسى, ug سىلىتسىي جىلغىسى Vietnamese: vi Thung lũng Điện tử, vi Thung lũng Silicon 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 en Valleys Places in California, USA Silicon