Silicon ValleyBy Simone Sequeira 7AAmbassador School

Brief Information• Silicon Valley is the southern region of the San Francisco 

Bay Area in Northern California, in the United States. The region,  whose  name  derives  from  the Santa  Clara Valley in  which  it  is  centered,  is  home  to  many  of  the world's  largest  technology  corporations  as  well  as thousands of small startups. The term originally referred to  the  region's  large  number  of silicon  chip innovators and  manufacturers.  Despite  the  development  of  other high-tech  economic  centers  throughout  the United States and  the world,  Silicon  Valley  continues  to  be  the leading startup  ecosystem for  high-tech  innovation  and development,  accounting  for  one-third  (1/3)  of  all  of the venture capital investment in the United States.

The Various Companies situated in Silicon Valley :• Adobe systems• Advanced Micro Systems (AMD)• Apple Inc.• Cisco Systems• Ebay• Former Headquarters Of Facebook• Google• Hewlett-Packard• Intel• Intuit• Nvidia • Oracle etc.

OriginThe term Silicon Valley was coined by Ralph Vaerst, a successful Central California entrepreneur. Its first published use is credited to Don Hoefler, a friend of Vaerst's, who used the phrase as the title of a series of articles in the weekly trade newspaper

Electronic News. The series, entitled “Silicon Valley in the USA", began in the paper's issue dated January 11, 1971.

History• Social roots of information technology revolutionThe region employs about a quarter of a million information technology workers. Silicon Valley was formed as a large pool of skilled engineers and scientists from major universities in the area; generous funding from an assured market with the Defense Department; etc.• Internet bubbleSilicon Valley is generally considered to have been the center of the dot-com bubble, which started in the mid-1990s and collapsed after the NASDAQ stock market began to decline dramatically in April 2000.For a brief time, Sand Hill Road was home to the most expensive commercial real estate in the world, and the booming economy resulted in severe traffic congestion. After the dot-com crash, Silicon Valley continues to maintain its status as one of the top research and development centers in the world.

Economy• Silicon Valley was the third largest high-tech center in the

United States, behind the New York and Washington metropolitan area, with 225,300 high-tech jobs. The Bay Area as a whole however, of which Silicon Valley is a part, would rank first with 387,000 high-tech jobs. Silicon Valley has the highest concentration of high-tech workers of any metropolitan area. Silicon Valley was the third largest high-tech center in the United States, behind the New York and Washington metropolitan area, with 225,300 high-tech jobs. The Bay Area as a whole however, of which Silicon Valley is a part, would rank first with 387,000 high-tech jobs. Silicon Valley has the highest concentration of high-tech workers of any metropolitan area.

Notable Companies

•Aol•Microsoft•Google•Apple• Facebook• LinkedIn• Twitter

Few Cities located in Silicon Valley :

• Atherton• Belmont• Campbell• East Pato Alto• Gilroy• Lost Gatos• Montre Sereno• Mountain View• Redwood City• Downtown San Jose-capital• Sunnyvale

Downtown San Jose

Bibliography

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Valley• http://www.google.ae/• http://www.google.ae/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi –Google images

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