Silicon Valley - is a nickname south of San Francisco Bay in northern California. The name "valley" refers to Santa Clara Valley in Santa Clara County, including San Jose and Zhou Bian Town, a region where tradition is centered. The area has been extended to the southern part of San Mateo County south of the San Francisco Peninsula and East Bay Alameda County.
Originally, the term "silicon" refers to a large number of integrated circuit manufacturers and regional innovation, but the region now has many of the largest high-tech companies, including the Fortune 1000 in the rally headquarters of 39 companies and several thousand. Participate in the Silicon Valley, across the US venture capital investment, by helping her one-third to become a leading hub and run the system in high-tech innovation and scientific development. Silicon Valley based chip was developed, microprocessor and microcomputer, one of the key technologies of the other. From 2013 to work in the area of about one million people a quarter of information technology [1].
Until Santa Clara Valley has created a high-tech company, then to San Francisco and two other large Auckland cities, in the north of the Silicon Valley area, known as "Silicon Valley" will eventually become applicable to all high-tech enterprises in the region. . Nowadays, this term is often used as a synecdoche for the high-tech sector in the US. The name has become a high-tech field that has led to the creation of a global structure comparable to the world's leading research and similar research in these places, as well as research parks and technology centers are synonymous.
