22 Facts About Silicon Valley

1. Silicon Valley is a region in the southern Bay Area of Northern California that serves as a global center for high technology, innovation and social media.

2. Silicon Valley is a main ingredient in very low-tech creations, including bricks and ceramics.

3. Silicon Valley is a semiconductor, meaning that it does conduct electricity.

4. Silicon Valley is the seventh-most abundant element in the universe and the second-most abundant element on the planet, after oxygen, according to the Royal Society of Chemistry.

5. Silicon Valley refers to the Santa Clara Silicon Valley, located at the southern end of San Francisco Bay, while Silicon refers to the high concentration of semiconductor and computer-related industries in the area.

6. 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.

7. Silicon Valley is the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area in California in the United States.

8. Silicon Valley nails the true spirit of the Bay Area tech corridor and the people who inhabit its cubicles—sometimes, a little too well.

9. Silicon Valley is very much a boy's club—so much so that it gave Amanda Crew, who plays Pied Piper board member Monica Hall, pause when it came time to audition.

10. Silicon Valley had begun to worry about Japanese competition by the late 1970s.

11. Silicon Valley has the dreamers, diversity, and intelligence for it.

12. Silicon Valley is a region in the southern San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California that serves as a global center for high technology, innovation and social media.

13. Silicon Valley is generally considered to have been the center of the dot-com bubble, which started in the mid-1990s and collapsed after the NASDAQ stock market began to decline dramatically in April 2000.

14. Silicon Valley based tech company Brightedge finds room to grow in Cleveland.

15. Silicon Valley is so expensive that people who make $400,000.

16. Silicon Valley is home to the high-tech superstore retail chain Fry's Electronics.

17. Silicon Valley has the highest average high-tech salary in the United States at $144,800.

18. Silicon Valley has a social and business ethos that supports innovation and entrepreneurship.

19. Silicon Valley is home to a significant number of "Unicorn" ventures, referring to startup companies whose valuation has exceeded $1 billion dollars.

20. Silicon Valley has significantly influenced computer operating systems, software, and user interfaces.

21. Silicon Valley was born through several contributing factors intersecting, including a skilled STEM research base housed in area universities, plentiful venture capital, and steady US Department of Defense spending.

22. Silicon Valley is a region in the southern San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California which serves as a global center for high technology, innovation and social media.