# Silicon Valley

> English word · Proper noun

## Definitions
1. Originally, the region of the San Francisco Bay Area in which there were a high number of industries producing silicon chips; later extended to mean the entire concentration of high-tech businesses in this area.
2. The tech industry, especially the American tech industry specifically.
3. A tech industry cluster in another country, developed as a competitor to the original Silicon Valley.

## Etymology
From Silicon Valley USA, the title of a series of articles appearing in 1971 in Electronic News by the journalist Don Hoefler, from silicon, an important element in semiconductor manufacturing + valley from Santa Clara Valley, the area where many of these industries are located.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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