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Silicon
Valley is a region in Nothern California that is a global
center for high technology and innovation.

Map of Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley is called
that to make a reference to silicon, a semi-conductor material used
in many electronic components.

Moreover, Silicon Valley is
also known as the Valley of Hearts Delight.

Furthermore,
Frederick Terman and William Shockley are both considered like the
fathers of Silicon Valley. But it’s Don Hoefler that first uses the
term « Silicon Valley » in the weekly trade newspaper on
January 11, 1971.

Besides, many of the
world's largest high-tech corporations have set home to the
Silicon Valley, like Meta, Apple, Google, and OpenAI.

headquarter of Apple in Silicon Valley | source : BBC

With this we can add the
headquarters of more than 30 businesses in the Fortune 1000 and
thousands of startup companies that have taken place in Silicon
Valley.

There are 56 billionaires
and 145,000 millionaires.

There are, in Silicon
Valley, many startups that are valued at 1 billion dollars or more.
The startups are called by the term « unicorn ». This
term was invented by Aileen Lee.

But nowadays, Silicon
Valley could become the epicenter of innovation with regard to the
climate crisis.