Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley is the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area in California in the United States. The term originally meant the innovators and manufacturers of silicon chip who worked here, but now means all the high-tech businesses in the area, and for the high-tech sector generally.^[1]

Silicon Valley includes the northern part of Santa Clara Valley and adjacent communities in the southern parts of the San Francisco Peninsula and East Bay.^[2][3][4] It reaches from Menlo Park (on the Peninsula) and the Fremont/Newark area in the East Bay down to San Jose.

Currently, many locations in Silicon Valley are full of tourists.^[5][6][7]

1. ↑ "San Jose area has world's third-highest GDP per capita, Brookings says". www.bizjournals.com. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
2. ↑ 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.
3. ↑ 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.
4. ↑ Shueh, Sam (2009). Silicon Valley. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7385-7093-8.
5. ↑ Carson, Biz. "16 Silicon Valley landmarks you must visit on your next trip". Business Insider. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
6. ↑ "Tech Headquarters You Can Visit in Silicon Valley". TripSavvy. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
7. ↑ Sheng, Ellen (2018-12-03). "Why the headquarters of iconic tech companies are now among America's top tourist attractions". CNBC. Retrieved 2021-04-13.