Silicon Valley / high-tech industry

Silicon Valley is a nickname for the South Bay portion of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California, United States. It is home to many of the world's largest technology corporations
, as well as thousands of small startups. The term originally referred to the region's large number of silicon chip innovators and manufacturers, but eventually came to refer to all high-tech businesses in the area, and is now generally used as a metonym for the American high-technology sector.


Notable companies:
Thousands of high technology companies are headquartered in Silicon Valley. Among those, the following are in the Fortune 1000:


Adobe Systems

Adobe HQ

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)

Agilent Technologies
Apple Inc.
Applied Materials
Brocade Communications Systems
Cisco Systems
eBay
Electronic Arts
Facebook
Google
Pixar
Hewlett-Packard
Intel
Intuit
Juniper Networks
KLA Tencor
LSI Logic
Marvell Semiconductors
Maxim Integrated Products
National Semiconductor
NetApp
Netflix
Nvidia
Oracle Corporation
Salesforce.com
SanDisk
Sanmina-SCI
Symantec
Western Digital Corporation
Xilinx
Yahoo!


Additional notable companies headquartered (or with a significant presence) in Silicon Valley include (some defunct or subsumed):
3Com (acquired by HP)
Actel
Actuate Corporation
Adaptec
Aeria Games and Entertainment
Akamai Technologies (HQ in Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Altera
Amazon.com's A9.com
Amazon.com's Lab126.com
Amdahl
Aricent
Asus
Atari
Atmel
Broadcom (headquartered in Irvine, California)
BEA Systems (acquired by Oracle Corporation)
Cypress Semiconductor
Dell (headquartered in Round Rock, Texas)
EMC Corporation (headquartered in Hopkinton, Massachusetts)
Extreme Networks
E*TRADE (headquartered in New York, NY)
Fairchild Semiconductor
Foundry Networks
Fujitsu (headquartered in Tokyo, Japan)
Groupon (headquartered in Chicago, IL)
Hitachi Data Systems
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
IBM Almaden Research Center (headquartered in Armonk, New York)
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Informatica
Intuitive Surgical
Kerio Technologies
LinkedIn
Logitech
Maxtor (acquired by Seagate)
McAfee (acquired by Intel)
Memorex (acquired by Imation and moved to Cerritos, California)
Micron Technology (headquartered in Boise, Idaho)
Microsoft (headquartered in Redmond, Washington)
Mozilla Foundation
Move, Inc.
Nokia (headquartered in Espoo, Finland)
Nokia Solutions and Networks (headquartered in Espoo, Finland)
NXP Semiconductors
Nook (subsidiary of Barnes & Noble)
Olivetti (headquartered in Ivrea, Italy)
Opera Software (headquartered in Oslo, Norway)
OPPO
Palm, Inc. (acquired by HP)
Panasonic (headquartered in Osaka, Japan)
PayPal (now part of eBay)
Philips Lumileds Lighting Company
Playdom
PlayPhone
Qualcomm, Inc. (HQ in San Diego, CA)
Quanta Computer
Quantcast
Quora
Rambus
RSA (acquired by EMC)
Samsung Electronics (headquartered in Suwon, Korea)
SAP AG (headquartered in Walldorf, Germany)
Siemens (headquartered in Berlin and Munich, Germany)
Sony (headquartered in Tokyo, Japan)
Sony Ericsson
SRI International
Sun Microsystems (acquired by Oracle Corporation)
SunPower
SurveyMonkey
Synopsys Inc.
Tata Consultancy Services (headquartered in Mumbai, India)
Tibco Software
Tesla Motors
TiVo
TSMC
Twitter
VA Software (Slashdot)
VeriSign
Veritas Software (acquired by Symantec)
VMware
WebEx (acquired by Cisco Systems)
@WalmartLabs (acquired by Walmart Global eCommerce)
YouTube (acquired by Google)
Yelp, Inc.


Universities and colleges:
The Art Institute of California – Sunnyvale
California College of the Arts
Carnegie Mellon University (Silicon Valley campus)
California State University, East Bay, Hayward
Chabot College
Cogswell Polytechnical College
De Anza College
Evergreen Valley College
Foothill College
Golden Gate University Silicon Valley Campus
Hult International Business School
International Culinary Center
John F. Kennedy University Campbell Campus
Lincoln Law School of San Jose
Menlo College
Mission College
Northwestern Polytechnic University (Fremont)
National Hispanic University
Notre Dame de Namur University
Ohlone College
Peralta Colleges
Saint Mary's College of California
San Jose City College
San José State University
San Francisco State University
Santa Clara University
Silicon Valley University
Stanford University
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Santa Cruz
University of San Francisco South Bay Campus
West Valley College