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What is Silicon Valley & Silicon Plateau?

Both seem to be some kind of land forms filled with flora and different species of fauna.

Something like this ?

They ain’t!

Ans :- They’re among the Major IT Hubs in the World. 
Here, IT stands for Information & Technology. IT sector is one of the most demanding sector leading to strengthening of urbanisation. 
IT deals with storage, processing & distribution of Information. Being an emerging business sector. IT deals with hardware, software, telecommunications, etc. Basically anything related to facilitate better communication.

Silicon Valley is in California, USA



 Silicon Plateau is in Bengaluru, India.

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Silicon Plateau got named so because Bengaluru being located in the Deccan Plateau & Silicon Valley is a part of Santa Clara Valley, located next to Rocky Mountains of North America.

The main factors responsible for location of IT sector are -
  1. Resources availability.
  2. Cost ( labour, other inputs,etc)
  3. Land for building infrastructure 
Advantages of Information and Technology -
  1. Makes life easier. You can uninterruptedly contact anyone, anytime throughout the globe.
  2. Dispersion of urgent information or announcement is easier. 
  3. Fast & Wide area coverage. That is an epitome for globalisation.
  4. Provides employment to many graduates. From a survey it is estimated that nearly 94.5% youth are employed in IT sector in Europe followed by around 90.9% in Germany & 90.4% in Netherlands.
  5. Best way to maintain a work- life balance and grab huge packages.
As everything comes with some flaws. Here are some Disadvantages of IT -
  1. There’s a huge concern for privacy and security as everything is now an open book.
  2. Lack of Job security and social skills.
  3. Huge input expenses.
Conclusion - Silicon Plateau, Bangalore, India and Silicon Valley, California, USA are Major IT Hubs of the World.



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