I øvrigt stammer nabnet fra 1971, se følgende: (fulde artikel
http://www.websofinnovation.com/svhistory.htm )
It was in 1971 that the name Silicon Valley was used for the first time. Journalist Don Hoefler used that term in a couple of articles in Electronic News, a weekly industry tabloid, about the semiconductor-industry around Palo Alto. Ralph Vaerst, then president of Ion Equipment suggested the term to Hoefler.
Originally the term was used only to describe Santa Clara County but later on the area, as Carolyn E. Tajnaj (1985) described it, "located on the San Francisco, California, peninsula, radiates outward from Stanford University. It is contained by the San Francisco Bay on the east, the Santa Cruz Mountains on the west, and the Coast Range to the southeast."
Until the middle of this century, this agriculturally rich region of Northern California was better know for its apricots and walnuts than for its Apples (Rogers and Larsen, 1984). It was then known as the Valley of Heart’s Delight.
In fact the basis of Silicon Valley started at Stanford University.
Mvh Erling