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Silicon Valley is a region in Nothern California that is a global center for high technology and innovation.

Silicon Valley is called that to make a reference to silicon, a semi-conductor material used in many electronic components.

Moreover, Silicon Valley is also known as the Valley of Hearts Delight.

Furthermore, Frederick Terman and William Shockley are both considered like the fathers of Silicon Valley. But it’s Don Hoefler that first uses the term « Silicon Valley » in the weekly trade newspaper on January 11, 1971.

Besides, many of the world's largest high-tech corporations have set home to the Silicon Valley, like Meta, Apple, Google, and OpenAI.

With this we can add the headquarters of more than 30 businesses in the Fortune 1000 and thousands of startup companies that have taken place in Silicon Valley.

There are 56 billionaires and 145,000 millionaires.

There are, in Silicon Valley, many startups that are valued at 1 billion dollars or more. The startups are called by the term « unicorn ». This term was invented by Aileen Lee.

But nowadays, Silicon Valley could become the epicenter of innovation with regard to the climate crisis.