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A Changing Valley. Change is good. That belief has been at the heart of Silicon Valley’s innovative tech culture since the beginning. In the 1970s Silicon Valley referred to a strip on the San Francisco Peninsula stretching some 17 miles from Palo Alto to San Jose and from the bay westward 7 miles, encompassing Sunnyvale and Cupertino.
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Silicon Valley lies in the South Bay and the southern Peninsula of the San Francisco Bay Area. Once best known for its prune orchards, the area underwent explosive growth with the creation of the high-tech industry in the 1960s. Although much of the area suffers from the suburban sprawl typical of much of the western United States, it still has ...
Mar 15, 2023 · Silicon Valley Bank provided banking services to nearly half the country’s venture capital-backed technology and life-science companies, according to its website, and to more than 2,500 venture ...
Jan 24, 2022 · Many in Silicon Valley believe that hand-waving is an important part of pushing technologies into the mainstream. The hype helps attract the money and the talent and the belief needed to build the ...
May 4, 2021 · The result of their academic-artistic collaboration is a new book, Seeing Silicon Valley: Life Inside a Fraying America (University of Chicago Press, 2021), an intimate look into the everyday ...
Silicon Valley, Industrial region, west-central California.Roughly bounded by San Francisco Bay on the north, the Santa Cruz Mountains on the west, and the Diablo Range on the east, it takes its (unofficial) name from the extensive use of silicon in the region’s electronics industries.
