10th form "The Story of Silicon Valley" Vocabulary

1. It is not made of silicon; and it is not a river valley; but forgetting that, Silicon Valley is probably the most _____ valley in the world.

2. Silicon Valley, near San Francisco, was the _____ of the modern computer industry.

3. Silicon Valley is thus a group of small towns, _____ Palo Alto and San Jose, a few miles south of San Francisco.

4. The high-technology industry was already _____ around San Francisco.

5. Intel had been _____ in 1968, and in the same year the first computer mouse built at Stamford University.

6. In 1970, Xerox opened a _____ centre in Palo Alto. There were other electronic companies, like Hewlett Packard, and Fairchild, the world's first "semiconductor" company.

7. Then, in 1076, an electronics student, called Steve Jobs started a small computer _____ in his garage; he gave it the same name as the Beatles' record company: Apple.

8. Very soon, more companies, like Seagate and Google _____. "Silicon Valley" had arrived. There was even a sort of primitive Internet connecting many addresses in Silicon Valley, called the Arpanet.

9. Today, Silicon Valley is still the home of the computer _____; it is still full of high technology, but it is not the only centre for high-tech in the USA.

10. Today here are computer firm all over the USA and all over the world, but Silicon Valley still has the largest _____ of high-tech companies and research centres.