Is Silicon Valley not silicone at all?

While reading news feeds, I often come across the name “Silicon Valley”. Recently I thought about the topic " why, in fact, is this valley silicone "? Could this be a UFO? Or is there so much silicone in the valley that they decided to name it in honor of this relatively young material?

He began to scour the vast expanses of the great and vast Internet and found the answer to his question. What I want to share with habrachitateli .
Forgive me the author of the habratopika for the image taken from him, but it is more relevant than ever to the topic.

Those who are also interested in answering the question why is the silicone valley asking:

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 female bodies :) It’s also a joke.

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

The name of the investigated valley in English looks like "Silicon Valley". Here, as it turned out, lies the nature of silicone. They called the "silicon" valley of steel because of the incorrect translation of the word silicon . The word is consonant with another English word silicone . That's just they are translated in completely different ways.
silicon translateswith English as silicon , silicone is translated as the silicone .

It turns out that the whole Russian-speaking community calls the place, which has already become historical, a place completely wrong. Correctly the valley is called "Silicon Valley". Moreover, the magnitude of the error is striking in its size.
First of all, this name came across 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 much more popular is pizza foie gras? . But on this, the community decided not to stop and the silicone valleys decided to multiply and multiply: again, first from the habr - Siberia - the next Silicon Valley, further more - Silicon Valley near St. Petersburg , "Silicon Valley" opens in Kharkov .

We’ll soon be living in the middle of Silicone ... Ugh, you probably meant silicon? ..
However, changing the community’s opinion will be quite difficult, as the quote from one of the sources indicated by me testifies:
“ It’s obvious that many people have the word silicone not digital associations arise at all. Formally, these interpreters are right, but the name Silicon Valley has long taken root in Russia, it’s more familiar, but if someone likes to say Silicon Valley, well, they don’t argue about tastes, because it’s about one and same! .. "