Where exactly is "The Silicon Valley" in U.S.A.?

Question

I keep hearing this term, and somehow they expect people to magically know where it is.

Answer 1

It's so ubiquitous that people feel they don't need to define it, as you said. It's California's Santa Clara Valley, near San Jose. At one time Massachusetts wanted Rte. 128 to be Silicon Alley or some such, even putting signs along the road: "America's Technology Highway" soon amended to "America's Technology Region" and then......gone.

Answer 2

Silicon Valley is located in the northern part of the Santa Clara valley, directly south of San Francisco Bay. Since the early 1900s, Silicon Valley has hosted innovators in technology, electronics, and the sciences, although the term “Silicon Valley” was not coined until the 1970s. Many people associate Silicon Valley with the tech industry, although the eponymous silicon chips are no longer manufactured in high volume in the region.

There are various ways to define the location of Silicon Valley. Some people consider it the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area, encompassing cities on both the east and west sides of the Bay, along with some cities directly below the Bay. The city of San Jose is widely regarded as the capital of Silicon Valley, and the cities of Cupertino, Palo Alto, Los Altos, Livermore, Mountain View, Santa Clara, and Sunnyvale, among others, are also grouped in the Silicon Valley.

Answer 3

The original silicon valley is santa clara valley from Palo Alto to San Jose. This is the home of Intel, AMD, apple, HP, yahoo, google, ebay..

Now the silicon valley is expanded to from South SF to South SJ and part of east bay( Fremont and Trivalley)

Silicon valley can be a term for high tech area in anywhere.

Answer 4

It is primarily the South Bay region of the Bay Area - including San Jose, Santa Clara, Milpitas, Mountain View and some of the surrounding communities. It is where the high tech industry really got started and is still going strong.

Answer 5

Basically it is San Jose, California, which is at the southern end of the San Francisco Bay.

The term refers to all the chip manufacturers in the area.

Answer 6

California.