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Silicon Valley is a nickname for the southern portion of the San Francisco Bay Area, in the northern part of the U.S. state of California. The valley in its name refers to the Santa Clara Valley in Santa Clara County, which includes the city of San Jose and surrounding cities and towns. San Jose's location within the booming local high tech industry earned the city the nickname Capital of Silicon Valley.
The word silicon originally referred to the large number of silicon chip innovators and manufacturers in the region, but the area is now the home to many of the world's largest high-tech corporations, including the headquarters of 39 businesses in the Fortune 1000, and thousands of startup companies. 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 and scientific development. It was in the Valley that the silicon-based integrated circuit, the microprocessor, and the microcomputer, among other key technologies, were developed. As of 2013, the region employed about a quarter of a million information technology workers.
As more high-tech companies were established across the Santa Clara Valley, and then north towards the Bay Area's two other major cities, San Francisco and Oakland, the Silicon Valley name eventually came to refer to all high-tech businesses in the region. The term is now generally used as a synecdoche for the American high-technology economic sector. The name also became a global synonym for leading high-tech research and enterprises, and thus inspired similar named locations, as well as research parks and technology centers with a comparable structure all around the world.
San Jose is the third-largest city by population in California, the tenth-largest by population in the United States, and the county seat of Santa Clara County. San Jose is the largest city in the Bay Area and the largest city in Northern California.
By the 1990s, San Jose's location within the booming local high tech industry earned the city the nickname Capital of Silicon Valley. San Jose is now considered to be a global city, and notable for its affluence and high cost of living. The U.S. Census Bureau estimated the population of the city to be 1,015,785 as of July 1, 2014.
Economy
The large concentration of high-technology engineering, computer, and microprocessor companies around San Jose has led the area to be known as Silicon Valley. As the largest city in the valley, San Jose has billed itself the capital of Silicon Valley. Area schools such as the University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Santa Cruz, San Jose State University, San Francisco State University, California State University, East Bay, Santa Clara University, and Stanford University pump thousands of engineering and computer science graduates into the local economy every year.
San Jose lists many companies with 1,000 employees or more, including the headquarters of Adobe, Altera, Brocade Communications Systems, Cadence Design Systems, Cisco Systems, eBay, Lee's Sandwiches, Lumileds, PayPal, Rosendin Electric, Sanmina-SCI, and Xilinx, as well as major facilities for Becton Dickinson, Ericsson, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, IBM, Kaiser Permanente, KLA Tencor, Lockheed Martin, Nippon Sheet Glass, Qualcomm, and AF Media Group. The North American headquarters of Samsung Semiconductor are located in San Jose. Approximately 2000 employees will work at the new Samsung campus which opened in 2015. Other large companies based in San Jose include Altera, Atmel, CEVA, Cypress Semiconductor, Echelon, Extreme Networks, Harmonic, Integrated Device Technology, Maxim Integrated, Micrel, Move, Netgear, Novellus Systems, Oclaro, OCZ, Online Trading Academy, Quantum, SunPower, Sharks Sports and Entertainment, Supermicro, Tessera Technologies, TiVo, Ultratech, and VeriFone. Sizable government employers include the city government, Santa Clara County, and San Jose State University. Acer's United States division has its offices in San Jose. Prior to its closing, Netcom had its headquarters in San Jose.
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San Jose (officially the City of San José) is an economic, cultural and political center of Silicon Valley, and the largest city in Northern California (both in population and area). With an estimated 2017 population of 1,035,317, it is the third-most populous city in California (after Los Angeles and San Diego) and the tenth-most populous in United States. Located in the center of the Santa Clara Valley, on the southern shore of San Francisco Bay, San Jose covers an area of 179.97 square miles (466.1 km2).
San Jose is the most populous city in both the San Francisco Bay Area and the San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland Combined Statistical Area, which contain 7.7 million and 8.7 million people respectively.
It is a global city, notable as a center of innovation, for its affluence, Mediterranean climate, and extremely high cost of living. San Jose's location within the booming high tech industry, as a cultural, political, and economic center has earned the city the nickname Capital of Silicon Valley. San Jose is one of the wealthiest major cities in the United States and the world, and has the third highest GDP per capita in the world.
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The Difference between San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and the Bay Area Explained
What is the difference between Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area? Is San Francisco a city or a county? Where in the Bay Area are the headquarters of the largest tech companies in the world?
This video explains the difference between San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and the Bay Area, gives brief overview of the history of Silicon Valley and how it came to dominate the tech industry, and gives you a tour of the Bay Area along with the companies headquartered there.
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San Jose, California, USA, Capital of Silicon Valley
San Jose is the third-largest city in California, the tenth-largest in the United States, and the county seat of Santa Clara County. San Jose is the largest city within Silicon Valley, which is a major component of the greater San Francisco Bay Area. It is the largest city in Northern California.
San Jose was founded on November 29, 1777, as El Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe, the first civilian town in the Spanish colony of Nueva California. The city served as a farming community to support Spanish military installations at San Francisco and Monterey. When California gained statehood in 1850, San Jose served as its first capital.
After more than 150 years as a small farming community, the San Jose area in the mid-20th century contained some of the last undeveloped land near San Francisco Bay. It then began to experience rapid population growth, much of it coming from veterans returning from World War II. San Jose then continued its aggressive expansion during the 1950s and 1960s by annexing more land area. The rapid growth of the high-technology and electronics industries further accelerated the transition from an agricultural center, to an urbanized metropolitan area.
By the 1990s, San Jose's location within the booming local technology industry earned the city the nickname Capital of Silicon Valley. San Jose is now considered by some to be a global city. The U.S. Census Bureau reported the population of the city to be 945,942 in 2010.
San Jose, along with the Santa Clara Valley, has experienced decades of suburban sprawl, with characteristics of intense urbanization similar to the Los Angeles area of Southern California.
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● Silicon Valley - Silicon Valley is a region in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California that serves as a global center for high technology, innovation, and social media.
● Golden Gate Bridge - The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the one-mile-wide (1.6 km) strait connecting San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean. The bridge is one of the most internationally recognized symbols of San Francisco and the United States. It has been declared one of the Wonders of the Modern World by the American Society of Civil Engineers.
● Transamerica Pyramid -- It is a 48-story futurist building and the second-tallest skyscraper in the San Francisco skyline. It was the tallest building in San Francisco from its inception in 1972 until 2018 when Salesforce Tower surpassed its height.
● The San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, known locally as the Bay Bridge, is a complex of bridges spanning San Francisco Bay in California. As part of Interstate 80 and the direct road between San Francisco and Oakland, it carries about 260,000 vehicles a day on its two decks.
● Palace of Fine Arts - It is a monumental structure originally constructed for the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition to exhibit works of art. It remains a popular attraction for tourists and locals and is a favorite location for weddings and such an icon that a miniature replica of it was built in Disney's California Adventure in Anaheim.
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● Alcatraz Island - Alcatraz Island is located in San Francisco Bay, 1.25 miles (2.01 km) offshore from San Francisco. The small island was developed with facilities for a lighthouse, a military fortification, a military prison, and a federal prison from 1934 until 1963. In 1972, Alcatraz became part of a national recreation area and received designation as a National Historic Landmark in 1986.
● Fisherman's Wharf - It is a neighborhood and popular tourist attraction in San Francisco. It roughly encompasses the northern waterfront area of San Francisco from Ghirardelli Square or Van Ness Avenue east to Pier 35 or Kearny Street.
● Lombard Street - Lombard Street is an east-west street in San Francisco that is famous for a steep, one-block section with eight hairpin turns. The famous one-block section, claimed to be the most crooked street in the world, is located along the eastern segment in the Russian Hill. It is a significant tourist attraction, receiving around two million visitors per year.
● Coit Tower - It is a 210-foot (64 m) tower in the Telegraph Hill, offering panoramic views over the city and the bay. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.
● Alamo Square - It is a residential neighborhood and park. It consists of four city blocks at the top of a hill overlooking much of downtown San Francisco, with many large and architecturally distinctive mansions along the perimeter, including the Painted Ladies, a popular postcard motif.
● Pigeon Point Lighthouse - It is a lighthouse built in 1871 to guide ships on the Pacific coast of California. It is the tallest lighthouse on the West Coast of the United States. The lighthouse is designated as a California Historical Landmark.
● Castro District - It is a neighborhood in Eureka Valley. The Castro is one of the most prominent symbols of LGBT activism and events in the world.
● San Francisco cable car - It is the world's last manually operated cable car system. The cable cars are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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San Jose, California, United States. History, Economy
San Jose is the largest city in Northern California. San Jose is an economic, cultural and political center of Silicon Valley. San Jose is a global city. It is notable as a center of innovation, for its affluence, weather, and high cost of living. San Jose is one of the wealthiest major cities in the United States and the world.
LOCATION
Located in the center of the Santa Clara Valley, on the southern shore of San Francisco Bay. San Jose is shaken by moderate earthquakes on average one or two times a year.
The Guadalupe River runs from the Santa Cruz Mountains flowing north through San Jose, ending in the San Francisco Bay at Alviso.
HISTORY
San Jose was officially founded as California's first civilian settlement on 29 November 1777, the first city founded in the California. San Jose became part of the First Mexican Empire in 1821, after Mexico's won against the Spanish Crown in the War of Independence. On 11 July 1846, Captain Thomas Fallon conquered San Jose for the California Republic in the Mexican–American War, officially ending Mexican rule in Alta California.
By the 1990s, San Jose and the rest of Silicon Valley had become the global center for the high tech and internet industries, making it California's fastest-growing economy.
POPULATION
It is the third most populous city in California after Los Angeles and San Diego and the tenth most populous in United States.
EDUCATION
San Jose is home to several colleges and universities. The largest is San Jose State University, which was founded by the California legislature in 1862.
CLIMATE
San Jose, like most of the Bay Area, has a Mediterranean climate. San Jose has an average of 301 days of sunshine and an annual mean temperature of 15.8 °C. Because of a more prominent rain shadow from the Santa Cruz Mountains, Downtown San Jose experiences the lightest rainfall in the city. With the light rainfall, San Jose and its suburbs experience about 300 fully or partly sunny days a year. The monthly daily average temperature ranges from around 10 °C in December and January to around 21.1 °C in July and August.
COMMUNICATION
Rail service to and from San Jose is provided by Amtrak. VTA also operates many bus routes in San Jose and the surrounding communities, as well as offering paratransit services to local residents. Additionally, the Highway 17 Express bus line connects central San Jose with Santa Cruz. San Jose is served by Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport,two miles northwest of downtown, and by Reid-Hillview Airport of Santa Clara County a general aviation airport located in the eastern part of San Jose.
GOVERNMENT
The city has a council-manager government with a city manager nominated by the mayor and elected by the city council. The San Jose City Council is made up of ten council members elected by district, and a mayor elected by the entire city. During city council meetings, the mayor presides, and all eleven members can vote on any issue. The mayor has no veto powers. Council members and the mayor are elected to four-year terms. The City Manager is the chief administrative officer of the city.
ARCHITECTURE
San Jose has many examples of houses with fine architecture. Late 19th century and early 20th century styles exist in neighborhoods such as Hanchett Park, Naglee Park, Rose Garden, and Willow Glen. Notable architects include Frank Delos Wolfe, Theodore Lenzen, Charles McKenzie and Julia Morgan.
ECONOMY
The San Jose Metropolitan Area has the most millionaires and the most billionaires in the United States. San Jose has the most expensive housing market in the country and the fifth most expensive housing market in the world. Major global tech companies including Cisco Systems, eBay, Cadence Design Systems, Adobe Systems, PayPal, Brocade, Samsung, Acer, and Western Digitalmaintain their headquarters in San Jose, in the center of Silicon Valley.
The cost of living in San Jose and the surrounding areas is among the highest in California and the nation.
SILICON VALLEY
The large concentration of high-technology engineering, computer, and microprocessor companies around San Jose has led the area to be known as Silicon Valley. San Jose residents produce more U.S. patents than any other city. By April 2018, Google was in the process of planning the biggest tech campus in Silicon Valley in San Jose.
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Silicon Valley California
Silicon Valley is the southern region of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California, United States. The region occupies roughly the same area as the Santa Clara Valley where it is centered. It is home to many of the world's largest technology corporations as well as thousands of small startups.[1] The term originally referred to the region's large number of silicon chip innovators and manufacturers, but eventually came to refer to all high-tech businesses in the area, and is now generally used as a metonym for the American high-technology sector.
Despite the development of other high-tech economic centers throughout the United States and the world, Silicon Valley continues to be a leading hub for high-tech innovation and development, accounting for one-third (1/3) of all of the venture capital investment in the United States.[2] Geographically, Silicon Valley encompasses all of the Santa Clara Valley, the southern Peninsula, and the southern East Bay. Despite the confusion of East Coast publications, Silicon Valley is a geographical area located on the peninsula, south of San Francisco.
What is Silicon Valley?
What is Silicon Valley? In this video, I walk through the original definition of the term Silicon Valley, a brief history of Silicon Valley, and touch on other meanings of the name Silicon Valley.
There is a ton of confusion around this topic because the term is used in different contexts to mean different things.
The term was originally used by engineers in the South San Francisco Bay Area of California to refer to the Santa Clara Valley, which had become a major hub for semiconductor manufacturing, a salient material for which was silicon, not to be confused with silicone, which as Sir Mix-A-Lot has taught us is the salient material for parts “made for toys.” Geddit?!
The name Silicon Valley was introduced widely to the public by a tech reporter named Don Hoefler writing for the publication Electronic News, popularized the term Silicon Valley USA in 1971. A three-part series on the history of the semiconductor industry in the Bay Area.
Let’s take a step back and look at that history and see why and how this area become such a strong tech hub. Back in 1956, William Shockley, who won a Nobel prize with two buddies for their pioneering work with transistors, left the legendary tech lab Bell Labs in New Jersey and set up shop to commercialize his inventions. He pick Mountain View, CA, known now as the home of Google and startup accelerator Y Combinator for his company, Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory. He was notoriously hard to work with and before long, eight of his key folks left Shockley to form Fairchild Semiconductor (with the financial and other support of industrialist Sherman Fairchild), itself legendary in the annals of tech history for making integrated circuits commercially viable. Alumni from Fairchild went on to found companies like Intel, Nvidia, and an absolute ton more. As this momentum built, Stanford University helped pour fuel on the tech fire, with its close proximity and strong engineering programs, becoming a central institution in development of tech in the region. Spurring on this nascent industry was the Department of Defense, which in 1957, following the Soviet launch of the satellite Sputnik, was a critical funder of Fairchild by Eisenhower. The first transistors went into things like B-70 bombers and minuteman missiles. The industry grew tremendously over time and led to the creation of new industries like personal computing and companies like Apple, named after a visit by founder Steve Jobs to a fruit orchard (it also didn’t hurt that the name was ahead of his previous employer, Atari, in the phone book, but that’s a convo for another day).
When used in its original context, Silicon Valley does not refer to other areas, such as San Francisco proper, the city, which itself has become a major tech hub in its own right and is just down the road from the Valley.
But why then do people refer to companies in San Francisco or even LA or Boston, or NY as “Silicon Valley” companies?
The reason is that the term is sometimes used as a catch-all for the tech community in the United States. While it may not perfectly reflect Hoefler’s meaning, it gives you a quick mental image of what the user is talking about. There are some people who are sticklers for proper usage and others who just don’t care that much.
The name Silicon Valley has also led to a number of other names emerging to refer to the tech communities in other cities and countries, like Silicon Alley to refer to the tech scene in New York, Silicon Beach for LA, Silicon Prairie for Kansas City, Silicon Roundabout for London, and so on.
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Silicon Valley is a nickname for the southern portion of the San Francisco Bay Area, in the northern part of the U.S. state of California. The valley in its name refers to the Santa Clara Valley in Santa Clara County, which includes the city of San Jose and surrounding cities and towns. San Jose's location within the booming local high tech industry earned the city the nickname Capital of Silicon Valley.
The word silicon originally referred to the large number of silicon chip innovators and manufacturers in the region, but the area is now the home to many of the world's largest high-tech corporations, including the headquarters of 39 businesses in the Fortune 1000, and thousands of startup companies. 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 and scientific development. It was in the Valley that the silicon-based integrated circuit, the microprocessor, and the microcomputer, among other key technologies, were developed. As of 2013, the region employed about a quarter of a million information technology workers.
As more high-tech companies were established across the Santa Clara Valley, and then north towards the Bay Area's two other major cities, San Francisco and Oakland, the Silicon Valley name eventually came to refer to all high-tech businesses in the region. The term is now generally used as a synecdoche for the American high-technology economic sector. The name also became a global synonym for leading high-tech research and enterprises, and thus inspired similar named locations, as well as research parks and technology centers with a comparable structure all around the world.
San Jose is the third-largest city by population in California, the tenth-largest by population in the United States, and the county seat of Santa Clara County. San Jose is the largest city in the Bay Area and the largest city in Northern California.
By the 1990s, San Jose's location within the booming local high tech industry earned the city the nickname Capital of Silicon Valley. San Jose is now considered to be a global city, and notable for its affluence and high cost of living. The U.S. Census Bureau estimated the population of the city to be 1,015,785 as of July 1, 2014.