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Old 04-22-2012, 03:21 PM
 
Location: surrounded by reality
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Not exactly sure what you are referring to, can you clarify?
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Old 04-22-2012, 05:12 PM
 
Location: South Korea
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There are major tech companies all over the place, in Emeryville and Pleasanton too, the whole bay area is silicon valley now. Even the term is somewhat outdated as its all about software, maybe they should call it... I dunno, something with cloud in it?
How about Cloudcuckooland, where all the tech babies' bloated salaries will trickle down to everyone else any...day...now... Oops! Your rent just got raised 25%.
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Old 04-23-2012, 01:22 PM
 
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This is a testament to the outsourcing / offshoring of the hardware. Only the software is left, and you can do software just as easily in a downtown tower, a little hutch near Gourmet Ghetto or a corner of a building formerly used by a now defunct silicon firm in Sunnyvale.

There is a sort of melancholy about this. The self made, middle class low level manufacturing engineer or process technician has no niche here.

That niche is now found inland, out of state or in another nation.
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Old 04-24-2012, 02:07 PM
 
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It means San Francisco is the The Capital of Silicon Valley! Congrats to SF!
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Old 04-24-2012, 04:28 PM
 
Location: Boulder Creek, CA
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It means San Francisco is the The Capital of Silicon Valley! Congrats to SF!
No way. SF isn't in a valley. If we're just going to try to bottle up every tech company in one ever-extending region, why don't we say SV includes Redmond, WA?

SV is the space bordered by Palo Alto, Los Gatos, Milpitas, and Morgan Hill.
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Old 04-24-2012, 09:45 PM
 
Location: A bit further north than before
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No way. SF isn't in a valley. If we're just going to try to bottle up every tech company in one ever-extending region, why don't we say SV includes Redmond, WA?

SV is the space bordered by Palo Alto, Los Gatos, Milpitas, and Morgan Hill.


I think the Merc is trying to say that the economic influence of the region now transcends the traditional boundaries of Silicon Valley. The traditional SV isn't the only place for tech these days, but since that name is so well entrenched in popular culture it's not going away and we can only expand our definition of it.
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Old 04-26-2012, 07:44 AM
 
Location: Playa Vista
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There are major tech companies all over the place, in Emeryville and Pleasanton too, the whole bay area is silicon valley now. Even the term is somewhat outdated as its all about software, maybe they should call it... I dunno, something with cloud in it?
haha. Nice one. Very true, sadly.
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Old 04-26-2012, 12:06 PM
 
Location: yeah
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The "silicon" moniker works in the valley, where R&D still produces hardware. There hasn't been a dispersal of SV industry so much as the tech sector has enveloped all industry and society now. Nobody would say that Zynga do the same work as Genentech or that either competes with Apple. Technology has become a really broad world with many niches (for lack of a better term) that are filled across different parts of the bay and, of course, the rest of the world.
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