In fact, the proportion of all Silicon Valley companies founded by Indians has slightly increased from 13.4% to 14% since 2007.
In 1999, UC-Berkeley School of Information dean AnnaLee Saxenian discovered that Indian-born entrepreneurs had founded 7% of all Silicon Valley startups between 1980 and 1998.
Recently, inaction by the California Franchise Tax Board (FTB) gave all Silicon Valley entrepreneurs a clear signal: make your residence in California a temporary or transitory one.
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As of 2008, one-third of all Silicon Valley companies were founded or co-founded by Indian or Chinese nationals who were able to legally work in the U.S. with an H-1B visa or green card.
It's not easy to cram all that silicon into so small a package without affecting the retail price.
Look for companies that produce the microprocessors and flash-memory chips--all the silicon components that make this new generation possible.
In addition, hardware acceleration for Adobe AIR is enabled across all major silicon partners including Broadcom, Intel, nVidia, ST Micro, Trident, Texas Instruments, Qualcomm and others.
"One of the reasons we went with custom hardware design for all our silicon is that it allows us to build security at the silicon level, " he told the BBC News website.
Five years ago, the major VC firms were all bases in Silicon Valley or Boston.
The Chinese company also said nearly all of its silicon needs and sales for 2008 have been secured through contracts and that it is "on track" to grow sales and profit margins during the first quarter, despite snow storms that caused delivery delays.
Is it possible Jobs has been motoring around Silicon Valley all these years unnoticed?
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Small machines do this by borrowing all the attributes of silicon chip making and applying them to the mechanical world.
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Whatever brave face your cell phone or PC puts on, don't be fooled: Between the layers of silicon, all is not well.
After all, many veteran Silicon Valleyites would argue that the worst thing that ever happened to this town was that we got noticed by Washington.
Whatever brave face your cell phone or PC may put on every morning, don't be fooled: Between the layers of silicon, all is not well.
With the rise of Big Data, personalization technology that can transform user data into unique experiences is all the rage among Silicon Valley bellwethers and VCs alike.
Under U.S. antidumping law, Dow Corning and all other consumers of silicon metal were forbidden from participating formally in the proceedings that lead to the imposition of the duties.
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For all its merits, Silicon Valley can definitely be too insular, and this is often expressed both through lack of engagement with the world at large and in a lack of perspective about the true value and potential of technology.
What is needed above all, agree many in Silicon Roundabout, is simply more success stories.
Silicon Valley is all about economic and social dynamism with its accompanying chaos.
And in spite of all the headlines devoted to Silicon Valley, we found great strength outside of that particular high-tech corridor.
But I did sample styles of entrepreneurship and business leadership in Europe, Montana and Silicon Valley, all within a 10-day period.
Physical propinquity remains a powerful force for innovation: Silicon Valley and all its imitators suggest that geography is far from dead.
Panasonic has just updated its Let's Note line with four new Sandy Bridge models: the B10, S10, N10 and J10 have all been blessed with new silicon.
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After all, an ingot of silicon is made by taking beach sand and a bit of energy: add a bit of care and attention and there you are.
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So is Apple, Facebook, Google and all the major technology companies in Silicon Valley.
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Venture capital icon Paul Graham notes that, for all its advantages and power, Silicon Valley has a great weakness.
"There's this sense that New York is the underdog of Silicon Valley and we all have to help each other get better, " she says.
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