Silicon Valley
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- proper noun
- /ˈsɪlɪkən ˈvæli/
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Silicon Valley
- Many start-ups are founded in Silicon Valley, which is known for promoting innovation.
- Silicon Valley in California
- Silicon Valley firms
- Silicon Valley tech
Or is Silicon Valley still the place to be?
- Or is Silicon Valley still the place to be?
- Stanford and Silicon Valley's roots are woven together.
- And that's what Vector did in Silicon Valley for these tech companies.
- But it's definitely about the money in Silicon Valley, like it's about the money.
- And part of this is, I mean, many companies within Silicon Valley have this.
- Have we missed something in Silicon Valley's shift?
- And I'm seeing things right now in Silicon Valley.
- I'm originally from the Bay Area, Silicon Valley area.
- OK, let's calculate how much it costs to live in Silicon Valley.
- The two kids, one is sitting in the US, Silicon Valley.
- We, we have a concentration of power in Silicon Valley, a very small area of the world.
- This is where talent hubs are abundant, not just in Silicon Valley.
- Like he is your typical Silicon Valley tech bro.
- When I first moved to Stanford from Harvard, I got my first close up view of Silicon Valley.
- The algorithms from the oligarchs in Silicon Valley have played a huge part in that.
- So again, I think we were talking about Silicon Valley.
- He looks like the dude from Silicon Valley.
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Maybe he should get out of Silicon Valley and see what goes on elsewhere.
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Google, Apple, other Silicon Valley companies starting to hire people without college credentials.
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Or is Silicon Valley still the place to be?
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But it's definitely about the money in Silicon Valley, like it's about the money.
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One of the most important developments out of Silicon Valley in the past decade is not a technology but a concept.
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I remember discussing this before a group of Silicon Valley executives.
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I just came from Silicon Valley, where I spent two days updating myself on what is going on.
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The accelerator culminates in a trip to Silicon Valley to meet with investors and demo their stuff.
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Stanford and Silicon Valley's roots are woven together.
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In February 2015, BTO sponsored a Biology is Technology symposium that took place in Silicon Valley.
Academic text (2017)
Surface Forms
Morphology
Silicon + Valley
The parts 'silicon' (a material central to computer chips) and 'valley' (a geographic lowland) give a compositional hint that this is a place associated with technology, so a learner who knows both words may infer a tech-related region. However, the extended/metonymic sense referring to the global startup ecosystem, venture-capital culture, and a model of rapid innovation is culturally specific and not fully predictable from the constituents alone, so it is only partially transparent to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Silicon Valley gets its name from the many makers of computer chips in a valley south of San Francisco: silicon is the material used for chips and valley describes the low land where the companies grew. So the name came to mean 'a region of high-technology companies'.