For those of you who currently works as a student, students, or employees modern businessman sure you will access your laptop or gadget least 1 time a day. Not to mention the use of smartphones, it is definitely every day you often come into contact with information technology products. Although you often use information technology products, if you know the history of Silicon Valley?
Probably most of you do not know what of the Silicon Valley, or which can be translated as the Silicon Valley in Indonesia.Well language, let's take a little bit of your free time to enrich the knowledge in the field of information technology.
What is a Silicon Valley? How origins?
Silicon Valley is an area that includes the area of San Francisco, Bay Area and California, known as the information technology industry producing region in the world. It could even be said that this is the heart of Silicon Valley technology companies of the world. The name "Silicon Valley" alone is certainly not legally registered as the name of an area. This name is simply the name for the area call center technology industry who are in the United States.
Silicon Valley which consists of the area of San jose, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, Palo Alto and some other developing regions as the heart of the company's technology for research and research carried out by students from Stanford University.Hal starts from two friends who set up the company in 1939 in the region. The company is a forerunner of HP company fronted by 2 founders, Hewlett and Packard.
Both the friend who set up the company's electronic measurement equipment is an alumni of Stanford University. Furthermore, the company HP growing rapidly and successfully into a larger company. Several other companies are getting attracted to settle in the region to participate gain success, as the company #Apple Computer, Xerox PARC and Fairchild Semiconductor.
During its development, Silicon Valley is often known as the "valley of opportunity", because the area is considered to be an opportunity for many information technology companies to develop various advanced technologies that affect the community's lifestyle.
Some listed companies thrive in Silicon Valley area are:
Yahoo! and Google (search engine on the internet)
Intel (semi-conductor field)
Sun Microsystems (the workstations)
Silicon Graphics (3D graphic design)
Cisco Systems and 3Com (field of computer network)
Why Named Silicon Valley?
The use of the name Silicon Valley is not derived from the results of the negotiations the companies settled in the region. The name was first popularized by a California businessman named Ralph Vaerst. The term is often used by Ralph is becoming increasingly popular as one of his companions, Don Hoefler use it to write an article.
Article published on January 11, 1971 in the weekly newspaper Electronic News is titled "Silicon Valley in the USA". The emergence of the term Silicon Valley in the newspaper made this term increasingly popular and widely used by the community to refer to a region consisting of many of the technology companies.
The use of the phrase Silicon Valley is not a term that made arbitrarily by Ralph Vaerst. Selection of said silicon is intended to refer to situations where large corporations using silicone material to make the semi-conductor technology and other technological devices. While the word Valley synonymous with the Santa Clara Vallet located at the southern end of San Francisco Bay.
Whatever the term used, Silicon Valley has become a place that makes a lot of people holding out to the development of the information technology world. This area is also one of the biggest jobs that provide hope for job seekers and investors. Hopefully the technological advances that stems from Silicon Valley can thrive in other regions around the world. Thank you for reading this article. Written and posted by Bambang Sunarno. sunarnobambang86@gmail.com
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DatePublished: 16 November 2014 at 18:45
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