"Silicon Valley" is not silicone?

Reading the news feeds often stumble on the name "Silicon Valley". Recently I thought about " why, in fact, this valley is silicone "? Is this a UFO? Or is there so much silicone in the valley that they decided to name it in honor of this relatively young material?

I began to scour the expanses of the great and immense Internet and found the answer to my question. What I want to share with habrachiteleley .
May the author of Habratopik forgive me for the image taken from him, but it more than ever approaches the topic.

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As it turned out, the valley is not silicone at all: (And I was hoping so ... Joke.
It turned out that the valley has a very indirect relation to silicone ... It is in the valley, but mainly in women's bodies :) Also a joke.

Part of the answer was suggested to me by a young, but promising Vika , another part - an article by a certain Paha , yes, I almost forgot, another source - Silicon Valley, or What is Silicon Valley? .

The name of the surveyed valley in English looks like “Silicon Valley”. Here, as it turned out, lies the nature of silicone. To call the "silicon" valley of steel because of the incorrect translation of the word silicon . The word is consonant with another English word, silicone . Here they are only translated in completely different ways.
silicon is translated from English as silicon , silicone is translated as silicone .

It turns out that the entire Russian-speaking community calls, which has already become historical, a place quite wrong. Correctly the valley is called "Silicon Valley". Moreover, the scale of the error is striking in its size.
First of all, this name came to me in the translation of the film “Pirates of Silicon Valley”. Next was Habra herself: How did the IT era begin? Sergey Burkov: How popular is pizza fouagre? . But on this, the community decided not to stop and the silicone valleys decided to multiply and multiply: again, first from Habra - Siberia - the next Silicon Valley , further more - Silicon Valley near St. Petersburg , "Silicon Valley" opens in Kharkov .

Edak we will soon live in the midst of Silicone ... Ugh, you, they probably meant silicon? ..
However, it will be quite difficult to change the opinion of the community, as evidenced by the quote from one of the sources I mentioned:
“ Obviously, many people have no digital associations with the word silicone. Formally, these interpreters are right, but in Russia the name Silicon Valley has long taken root, it is more common. But if someone likes to say Silicon Valley, - well, about tastes they do not argue, because we are talking about the same thing! .. "