Silicon Valley is a region in Northern California known for technology companies and startups. It is home to major tech companies like Apple, Google, Facebook, and Intel. The term originated in 1971 to describe the large number of silicon chip innovators and manufacturers in the area. Despite other tech hubs emerging, Silicon Valley remains the leading startup ecosystem for high-tech innovation, accounting for a third of US venture capital investment. It has a strong workforce of over 225,000 technology professionals and was impacted by the dot-com bubble in the late 1990s.

1. Silicon Valley
By Simone Sequeira 7A
Ambassador School

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. Origin
The 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.

5. History
• Social roots of information technology revolution
The 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 bubble
Silicon 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.

6. 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.

7. Notable Companies
•Aol
•Microsoft
•Google
•Apple
•Facebook
•LinkedIn
•Twitter

8. 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

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