The term Silicon Valley refers to a region in the south San Francisco Bay Area. The name was first adopted in the early 1970s because of the region's association with the silicon transistor, which is used in all
Samsung has been very supportive of this professionalism and passion of the Samsung’s divisions in Silicon Valley in the human resources and research and development, especially in the software area. For example, Samsung has over 65,000 employees in R&D, and over 35,000 of them are involved ...
Reports that in Silicon Valley, California, the way to tell how a company is performing is by how crowded the parking lot is after the normal workday ends at 7 p.m. Highlights of a survey that was conducted at the parking lots of Cisco System Incorporated, Oracle Corporation, Yahoo!
The US arm of Baidu is calledBaidu USAand autonomous cars are one of the two business lines that the company operates. Why is Baidu in Silicon Valley and not Pittsburgh which has a reputation as a self-driving mecca? (Ask Uber if you need confirmation.) Maybe because autonomous vehicle tec...
Silicon is a gray, brittle, tetravalent, chemical element. It makes up 27.8% of the earth’s crust and next to oxygen, it is the most abundant element in nature. Some of the most common materials that contain silicon are quartz, agate, flint, and common beach sand, among others. It is...
The sunk cost fallacy is when you throw resources into a losing venture because you've already spent time or money.
Silicon valley 硅谷 What does the computer industry thrive on apart from anarchy? Technology trends may push Silicon Valley back to the future. Carver Mead, a pioneer in integrated circuits and a professor of computer science at the California Institute of Technology, notes there are now work-sta...
Silicon Valley is not the land of Archie Bunker or of the nativist movement. It’s the opposite, in fact: Silicon Valley is a liberal bastion that is also extremely elitist, what some call “liberals who can afford to be.” And it has a big component both of mercenary economics (the ...
Could you reproduce Silicon Valley elsewhere, or is there something unique about it? It wouldn't be surprising if it were hard to reproduce in other countries, because you couldn't reproduce it in most of the US either. What does it take to make a Silicon Valley? It's the right people...
“The real secret of Silicon Valley is that it’s really all about the people.” This is the sentence that jumps off the page for me in the opening chapter of “The Alliance”. I believe this deeply. But in all that is written about the magic and success of Silicon Valley, the ...