Silicon Valley also accounts for one-third of all of the venture capital investment in the United States, which has helped it to become a leading hub and startup ecosystem for high-tech innovation. It was in Silicon Valley that the silicon-based integrated circuit, the microprocessor, and the microcomputer, among other technologies, were developed.
Silicon Valley is an American comedy television series created by Mike Judge, John Altschuler and Dave Krinsky. It premiered on HBO on April 6, 2014, running for a total of six seasons of 53 episodes. The series finale aired on December 8, 2019.
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The term Silicon Valley was coined by journalist Don Hoefler in 1971. He used it as the title of a series of articles "Silicon Valley USA" in a weekly trade newspaper Electronic News which started with the January 11, 1971 issue. Valley refers to the Santa Clara Valley, located at the southern end of San Francisco Bay, while Silicon refers to the high concentration of semiconductor and computer-related industries in the area. These and similar technology firms slowly replaced the orchards which gave the area its initial nickname, the Valley of Heart's Delight.
The San Francisco Bay Area had long been a major site of U.S. Navy work, as well as the site of the Navy's large research airfield at Moffett Field. A number of technology firms had set up shop in the area around Moffett to serve the Navy. When the Navy moved most of its West Coast operations to San Diego, NASA took over portions of Moffett for aeronautics research. Many of the original companies stayed, while new ones moved in. The immediate area was soon filled with aerospacefirms. However, there was almost no civilian "high-tech" industry in the area. Although there were a number of excellent schools in the area, graduating students almost always moved east or south (that is, to Los Angeles County) to find work. This was particularly annoying to Frederick Terman, a professor at Stanford University. He decided that a vast area of unused Stanford land was perfect for real estate development, and set up a program to encourage students to stay in the area by enabling them to easily f...
Thousands of high technology companies are headquartered in Silicon Valley; among those, the following are in the Fortune 1000: 1. Adobe Systems 2. Advanced Micro Devices(AMD) 3. Agilent Technologies 4. Apple Inc. 5. Applied Materials 6. Cisco Systems 7. eBay 8. Electronic Arts 9. Facebook 10. Google 11. Hewlett-Packard(HP) 12. Intel 13. Intuit 14. Juniper Networks 15. Maxtor 16. Memorex (Brand of Imation) 17. National Semiconductor 18. Network Appliance 19. NVIDIA Corporation 20. Oracle Corporation 21. Sun Microsystems (acquired by Oracle Corporation) 22. Symantec 23. Xilinx 24. Yahoo! Additional notable companies headquartered (or with a significant presence) in Silicon Valley include (some defunct or subsumed): 1. 3Com(headquartered in Marlborough, Massachusetts) 2. Adaptec 3. Amdahl 4. Aricent 5. Atari 6. Atmel 7. Covansys 8. Cypress Semiconductor 9. Foundry Networks 10. Fujitsu(headquartered in Tokyo, Japan) 11. Hitachi Global Storage Technologies 12. Knight-Ridder (acquired by...
A number of cities are located in Silicon Valley (in alphabetical order): 1. Cupertino 2. East Palo Alto 3. Fremont 4. Gilroy 5. Los Altos 6. Los Altos Hills 7. Los Gatos 8. Menlo Park 9. Morgan Hill 10. Mountain View 11. Milpitas 12. Palo Alto 13. Redwood City 14. San Jose 15. Santa Clara 16. Saratoga 17. Sunnyvale Cities sometimes associated with the region: 1. Newark 2. Pleasanton 3. Livermore 4. Scotts Valley 5. Santa Cruz 6. Union City
In the James Bond film A View to a Kill, villain Max Zorin plans to destroy Silicon Valley by detonating explosives between the Hayward Fault and San Andreas Fault, causing them to flood. He dubs the operation 'Main Strike' in order to gain complete control of the microchipmarket by selling his own and destroying the competition.
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolutionby Steven Levy, Garden City, New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday (1984)Behind the Silicon Curtain: The Seductions of Work in a Lonely Era, Dennis Hayes, London: Free Association Books (1989)Silicon Valley, Inc.: Ruminations on the Demise of a Unique Culture Archived 2007-03-02 at the Wayback Machine, The San Jose Mercury News (1997)Cultures@Silicon Valley, J. A. English-Lueck, Stanford: Stanford University Press (2002)↑ www.bizjournals.com https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2015/01/23/san-jose-has-worlds-third-highest-gdp-per-capita.html. Retrieved 2021-04-13. Missing or empty |title= (help)↑ Malone, Michael S. (2002-07-10). The Valley of Heart's Delight: A Silicon Valley Notebook 1963 - 2001. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-471-20191-5.↑ Matthews, Glenna (2003). Silicon Valley, Women, and the California Dream: Gender, Class, and Opportunity in the Twentieth Century. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-4154-5.↑ Shueh, Sam (2009). Silicon Valley. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7385-7093-8.Silicon Valley 150 for beginning of 2004 as a PDF file Archived 2005-04-17 at the Wayback Machine- Overview
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The fifth season of the American comedy television series Silicon Valley premiered in the United States on HBO on March 25, 2018. The season contained 8 episodes, and concluded on May 13, 2018.
In May 2017, the series was renewed for a fifth season, and it was announced that T.J. Miller would not return to the series for the fifth season. For this season, Clay Tarver was promoted to executive producer and co-showrunner alongside Mike Judge and Alec Berg, who also serve as showrunners and executive producers.
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the season holds an 87% approval rating, earning a "Certified Fresh" rating. It holds an average score of 7.25/10 based on 27 reviews. The site's critical consensus reads "Five seasons in, Silicon Valley finds a new way to up the ante with ti
The fifth season was released on DVD only on September 4, 2018.
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The sixth and final season of the American comedy television series Silicon Valley premiered in the United States on HBO on October 27, 2019, and concluded on December 8, 2019. The season consisted of 7 episodes.
In April 2018, it was announced that HBO had renewed the series for a sixth season. In May 2019, HBO confirmed that season six would be the final season and that it would consist of seven episodes; the show had production delays to accommodate producer Alec Berg, who runs the HBO comedy series Barry.
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the season holds a 92% approval rating, with an average rating of 7 out of 10 based on 12 reviews. The site's critical consensus reads, "Though the strangeness of reality threatens to one-up it, Silicon Valley's final season is funny, fearless, and still playing by its own rules to the very end." On Metacritic, the season has a score of 78 out of 100 based on 4 reviews.
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The fourth season of the American comedy television series Silicon Valley premiered in the United States on HBO on April 23, 2017. The season contained 10 episodes, and concluded on June 25, 2017. This is the final season to feature T.J. Miller as Erlich Bachman.
In April 2016, the series was renewed for a fourth season. The fourth season promotional poster was designed by visual artist and graphic novelist Daniel Clowes, who was commissioned by HBO to produce a poster in his iconic style.
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the season holds a 97% approval rating, earning a "Certified Fresh" rating. It holds an average score of 8.18/10 based on 33 reviews. The site's critical consensus reads "Silicon Valley's fourth season advances the veteran comedy's overall ar
The fourth season was released on DVD and Blu-ray on September 12, 2017; bonus features include deleted scenes.
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1999 American biographical television film Pirates of Silicon Valley Promotional poster Genre Drama Biography Based onFire in the Valley: The Making of The Personal Computer by Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine Screenplay byMartyn Burke Directed byMartyn Burke Starring Noah Wyle Anthony Michael Hall Joey Slotnick John DiMaggio Josh Hopkins ComposerFrank Fitzpatrick Country of originUnited States Original languageEnglish Production Executive producers Steven Haft Nick Lombardo ProducerLeanne Moo
Steve Jobs is speaking with director Ridley Scott about the creation of the 1984 advertisement for Apple Computer, which introduced the first Macintosh. Jobs is trying to convey his idea that "We're creating a completely new consciousness." Scott is more concerned with the technical aspects of the advertisement. Next in 1997 with Jobs, returning to Apple, and announcing a new deal with Microsoft at the 1997 Macworld Expo. His partner, Steve "Woz" Wozniak, is introduced as one of the two central
Burke notes that when he was shown the first draft of the screenplay, which is based upon Freiberger and Swaine's Fire in the Valley, "It was all about how the '286 computer' became the '386' and so on... I was bored by it." After the studio asked him for suggestions Burke states
Burke sought Noah Wyle for the part of Jobs. Wyle originally turned down the role, but changed his mind after Burke had him watch the 1996 documentary, Triumph of the Nerds. Wyle states that he watched the documentary "for ten seconds and knew I'd kick myself for the rest of my l
Pirates of Silicon Valley was originally scheduled to be shot in Toronto, with more than $1 million in sets. However, when Wyle was unable to receive a long enough release from ER to shoot in Canada, the film temporarily shut down. Filming began again later in Los Angeles. During
Young Steve Jobs participated in aspects of the 1960s counterculture. Actor Noah Wyle, who portrays Jobs, stated in an interview with CNN, "These kids grew up 30 miles south of the Berkeley campus, which was ripe with revolution... and they couldn't have cared less about the politics going on. They were in the garage tinkering with their electronics and starting a revolution that was a thousand times greater than anything that was going on the college campuses, politically." Director Martyn Burk
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Because silicon is an important element in high-technology semiconductor devices, many places in the world bear its name. For example, Santa Clara Valley in California acquired the nickname Silicon Valley, as the element is the base material in the semiconductor industry there.
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