Freeway opponents fear that upgrading Highway 84 will encourage more people to live in southern Alameda County ( where housing is more affordable ) and commute to jobs in the mid-Peninsula area ( where businesses wish to be located in order to be close to Silicon Valley ), thus increasing traffic in their neighborhoods to the south and west of U. S. 101.

Among the most popular in this series were: 1N34A / 1N270 ( Germanium signal ), 1N914 / 1N4148 ( Silicon signal ), 1N4001-1N4007 ( Silicon 1A power rectifier ) and 1N54xx ( Silicon 3A power rectifier )

* September 6, 2005: Acquires First Silicon Solutions ( FS2 ), a Lake Oswego, Oregon company as a wholly owned subsidiary.

Robert Norton Noyce ( December 12, 1927 – June 3, 1990 ), nicknamed " the Mayor of Silicon Valley ", co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel Corporation in 1968.

Geographically, the Silicon Valley encompasses all of the Santa Clara Valley including the city of San Jose ( and adjacent communities ), the southern Peninsula Valley, and the southern East Bay.

At its height, Sun headquarters were in Santa Clara, California ( part of Silicon Valley ), on the former west campus of the Agnews Developmental Center.

For eight consecutive years ( 1995 – 2002 ), all films nominated for an Academy Award for Distinguished Achievement in Visual Effects were created on Silicon Graphics computer systems.

Their commercial development came in work by Burroughs ( later Unisys ), Convex Computer ( later Hewlett-Packard ), Honeywell Information Systems Italy ( HISI ) ( later Groupe Bull ), Silicon Graphics ( later Silicon Graphics International ), Sequent Computer Systems ( later IBM ), Data General ( later EMC ) and Digital ( later Compaq, now HP ) during the 1990s.

** ARCS ( computing ), used in computers from Silicon Graphics

Marc Andreessen, the leader of the team that developed Mosaic, left NCSA and, with James H. Clark, one of the founders of Silicon Graphics, Inc. ( SGI ), and four other former students and staff of the University of Illinois, started Mosaic Communications Corporation.

Silicon is a metalloid, readily either donating or sharing its four outer electrons, allowing for many forms of chemical bonding.

Silicon is an alternative to lead ; however, when silicon is used in a brass alloy, the scrap must never be mixed with leaded brass scrap because of contamination and safety problems.

Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. is an American video game developer and publisher founded on February 8, 1991 under the name Silicon & Synapse by three graduates of UCLA ,< ref name =" UCLAHonorDinner2006_11_06 ">

Silicon nitride is often used as an insulator and chemical barrier in manufacturing ICs.

There are no cross-Peninsula freeway connections between State Routes 92 and 85 ( which is so far south that it technically lies in Silicon Valley and not on the Peninsula ).

" The workplace location is Silicon Valley.

IRIX is a computer operating system developed by Silicon Graphics, Inc. ( SGI ) to run natively on their MIPS architecture workstations and servers.

An overlay upgrade from 6. 5. x to the 6. 5. 22 maintenance release is available as a free download, whereas versions 6. 5. 23 and higher require an active Silicon Graphics support contract, despite only running on Silicon Graphics hardware.

Silicon Valley is known to be one of the world's most targeted areas for espionage, though any industry with information of use to competitors may be a target.

Silicon is the material used to create most integrated circuits used in consumer electronics in the modern world.

Silicon is machined using various etching processes.

Silicon dioxide ( SiO < sub > 2 </ sub >) is one of the most common oxides on the surface of earth.

OpenGL was developed by Silicon Graphics Inc. in 1992 and is widely used in CAD, virtual reality, scientific visualization, information visualization, flight simulation, and video games.

He is also credited ( along with Jack Kilby ) with the invention of the integrated circuit or microchip which fueled the personal computer revolution and gave Silicon Valley its name.

The east side of the peninsula is a heavily densely populated and a largely urban area that includes portions of Silicon Valley.

Silicon Valley is the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California in the United States.

Valley refers to the Santa Clara Valley, located at the southern end of San Francisco Bay, while Silicon refers to the high concentration of companies involved in the semiconductor ( silicon is used to create most semiconductors commercially ) and computer industries that were concentrated in the area.

It is situated in the northwestern Silicon Valley, approximately northwest of San Jose and southeast of San Francisco.

The distinctive regional ethos of the West during the first half of the 20th century is an ingredient of Silicon Valley's already prepared environment, an ingredient that would-be replicators ignore at their peril.

He is credited with nurturing Hewlett-Packard, Varian Associates, and other high-tech firms, until what would become Silicon Valley grew up around the Stanford campus.

Terman is often called " the father of Silicon Valley.

Stanford University is located on an campus on the San Francisco Peninsula, in the northwest part of the Santa Clara Valley ( Silicon Valley ) approximately southeast of San Francisco and approximately northwest of San Jose.

Chalcedony's standard chemical structure ( based on the chemical structure of quartz ) is SiO < sub > 2 </ sub > ( Silicon Dioxide ).

* Silicon tetrachloride, a non-polar chemical compound

Silicon is the Earth's second most abundant chemical element, and today high-purity silicon crystals are mass-produced.

Silicon is a common impurity in diamond films grown by chemical vapor deposition and it originates either from silicon substrate or from silica windows or walls of the CVD reactor.

Silicon thin-film cells are mainly deposited by chemical vapor deposition ( typically plasma-enhanced, PE-CVD ) from silane gas and hydrogen gas.

Silicon is the eighth most common element in the universe by mass, but very rarely occurs as the pure free element in nature.

Silicon is an essential element in biology, although only tiny traces of it appear to be required by animals, however various sea sponges as well as microorganisms like diatoms need silicon in order to have structure.

* The element Silicon is first identified by Antoine Lavoisier as a component of the Latin term silex or " Flints " ( meaning " Hard Rocks ").

Silicon is the second most abundant element in earth ’ s crust.

Silicon ( Si ) is the second most common element in the Earth's crust ( oxygen is the most common ).

" What Silicon Spice has created is a whole new computational element of the same significance of what the microprocessor was to the PC.

Silicon is important to making grey iron as opposed to white cast iron, because silicon is a graphite stabilizing element in cast iron, which means it helps the alloy produce graphite instead of iron carbides.