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Silicon Valley (oh)



a part of California in the area between San Francisco and San Jose, which is a centre of the computer industry. Many important inventions were made in this area, and many large and small companies producing computer software and hardware are based there. It is called Silicon Valley because the computer industry is based on the silicon chip .