Silicon Valley - Wikipedia Silicon Valley This article is about the high - tech dominated area of the San Francisco Bay Area. For the TV series, see Silicon Valley ( TV series ). For other uses, see Silicon Valley ( disambiguation ). Silicon Valley Region Silicon Valley, as seen from over north San Jose, facing southward towards Downtown San Jose, in June 2014. San Francisco Bay Area within California Country United States State California Region San Francisco Bay Area Municipalities List Campbell Cupertino Los Altos Los Altos Hills Los Gatos Milpitas Monte Sereno Morgan Hill Mountain View Palo Alto San Jose Santa Clara Saratoga Sunnyvale Time zone Pacific ( UTC − 8 ) Summer ( DST ) PDT ( UTC − 7 ) Silicon Valley is a nickname for the southern portion of the San Francisco Bay Area, in the northern part of the U.S. state of California. The `` valley '' in its name refers to the Santa Clara Valley in Santa Clara County, which includes the city of San Jose and surrounding cities and towns, where the region has been traditionally centered. The region has expanded to include the southern half of the San Francisco Peninsula in San Mateo County, and southern portions of the East Bay in Alameda County. The word `` silicon '' originally referred to the large number of silicon chip innovators and manufacturers in the region, but the area is now the home to many of the world 's largest high - tech corporations, including the headquarters of 39 businesses in the Fortune 1000, and thousands of startup companies. Silicon Valley also accounts for one - third of all of the venture capital investment in the United States, which has helped it to become a leading hub and startup ecosystem for high - tech innovation and scientific development. It was in the Valley that the silicon - based integrated circuit, the microprocessor, and the microcomputer, among other key technologies, were developed. As of 2013, the region employed about a quarter of a million information technology workers. As more high - tech companies were established across the Santa Clara Valley, and then north towards the Bay Area 's two other major cities, San Francisco and Oakland, the `` Silicon Valley '' has come to have two definitions : a geographic one, referring to Santa Clara County, and a metonymical one, referring to all high - tech businesses in the Bay Area or even in the United States. The term is now generally used as a synecdoche for the American high - technology economic sector. The name also became a global synonym for leading high - tech research and enterprises, and thus inspired similar named locations, as well as research parks and technology centers with a comparable structure all around the world. Contents 1 Origin of the term 2 History ( before 1970s ) 2.1 Roots in telegraph, radio, commercial and military technology 2.2 Ham radio 2.3 Welfare capitalism 2.4 U.S. response to Sputnik 2.5 Stanford University 2.6 Stanford Industrial Park 2.7 The silicon transistor 2.8 Computer networking 2.9 Immigration reform 3 History ( 1971 and later ) 3.1 Chips 3.2 Homebrew Computer Club 3.3 Venture capital firms 3.4 Media 3.5 Software 3.6 The Internet 3.7 Internet bubble 3.8 Early 21st century 4 Economy 4.1 Overview 4.2 Notable companies 4.3 Notable government facilities 5 Demographics 5.1 Diversity 5.2 Schools 6 Municipalities 7 Universities, colleges, and trade schools 8 Art galleries and museums 9 Media outlets 10 Cultural references 11 See also 12 References 13 Further reading 14 External links Origin of the term Perhaps the strongest thread that runs through the Valley 's past and present is the drive to `` play '' with novel technology, which, when bolstered by an advanced engineering degree and channeled by astute management, has done much to create the industrial powerhouse we see in the Valley today. -- Timothy J. Sturgeon The first published use of Silicon Valley is credited to Don Hoefler, a friend of local entrepreneur Ralph Vaerst 's who suggested the phrase to him. Hoefler used the phrase as the title of a series of articles in the weekly trade newspaper Electronic News. The series, titled `` Silicon Valley in the USA '', began in the paper 's January 11, 1971, issue. The term gained widespread use in the early 1980s, at the time of the introduction of the IBM PC and numerous related hardware and software products to the consumer market. The silicon part of the name refers to the high concentration of companies involved in the making of semiconductors ( silicon is used to create most semiconductors commercially ) and computer industries that were concentrated in the area. These firms slowly replaced the orchards and the fruits which gave the area its initial nickname -- the `` Valley of Heart 's Delight ''. Looking west over northern San Jose ( downtown is at far left ) and other parts of Silicon Valley History ( before 1970s ) The `` Birthplace of the Silicon Valley '' garage in Palo Alto, where William Hewlett and David Packard started developing their audio oscillator in 1938 ( photographed 2016 ) A sign describing the `` Birthplace of Silicon Valley '' garage, 2016 Silicon Valley was born through several contributing factors intersecting, including a skilled STEM research base housed in area universities, plentiful venture capital, and steady U.S. Department of Defense spending. Stanford University leadership was especially important in the valley 's early development. Together these elements formed the basis of its growth and success. Roots in telegraph, radio, commercial and military technology Downtown San Jose as seen with lit palm trees The first ship - to - shore wireless telegraph message to be received in the US was from the San Francisco lightship outside the Golden Gate, signaling the return of the American fleet from the Philippines after their victory in the Spanish -- American War. The ship had been outfitted with a wireless telegraph transmitter by a local newspaper, so that they could prepare a celebration on the return of the American sailors. Local historian Clyde Arbuckle states in Clyde Arbuckle 's History of San Jose that `` California first heard the click of a telegraph key on September 11, 1853. It marked completion of an enterprise begun by a couple of San Francisco Merchants ' Exchange members named George Sweeney and Theodore E. Baugh... '' He says, `` In 1849, the gentleman established a wigwag telegraph station a top a high hill overlooking Portsmouth Squares for signaling arriving ships... The operator at the first station caught these signals by telescope and relayed them to the Merchant 's Exchange for the waiting business community. '' Arbuckle points to the historic significance the Merchants Exchange Building ( San Francisco ) and Telegraph Hill, San Francisco when he goes on to say `` The first station gave the name Telegraph to the hill on which it was located. It was known as the Inner Station ; the second, as the Outer Station. Both used their primitive mode of communication until Messrs. Sweeney and Baugh connected the Outer Station directly with the Merchants 's Exchange by electric telegraph Wire. '' According to Arbuckle ( p. 380 -- 381 ) Sweeney and Baugh 's line was strictly an intra-city, San Francisco - based service ; that is until California State Telegraph Company enfranchised on May 3, 1852 ; whereas, O.E. Allen and C. Burnham led the way to `` build a line from San Francisco to Marysville via San Jose, Stockton, and Sacramento. '' Delays to construction occurred until September 1853 ; but, ``... San Jose became the first station on the line when the wire arrived here on October 15. The line was completed when ( James ) Gamble 's northbound crew met a similar crew working southward from Marysville on October 24. '' The Bay Area had long been a major site of United States Navy research and technology. In 1909, Charles Herrold started the first radio station in the United States with regularly scheduled programming in San Jose. Later that year, Stanford University graduate Cyril Elwell purchased the U.S. patents for Poulsen arc radio transmission technology and founded the Federal Telegraph Corporation ( FTC ) in Palo Alto. Over the next decade, the FTC created the world 's first global radio communication system, and signed a contract with the Navy in 1912. In 1933, Air Base Sunnyvale, California, was commissioned by the United States Government for use as a Naval Air Station ( NAS ) to house the airship USS Macon in Hangar One. The station was renamed NAS Moffett Field, and between 1933 and 1947, U.S. Navy blimps were based there. A number of technology firms had set up shop in the area around Moffett Field to serve the Navy. When the Navy gave up its airship ambitions and moved most of its west coast operations to San Diego, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ( NACA, forerunner of NASA ) took over portions of Moffett Field for aeronautics research. Many of the original companies stayed, while new ones moved in. The immediate area was soon filled with aerospace firms, such as Lockheed. Ham radio The Bay Area was an early center of ham radio with about 10 % of the operators in the United States. William Eitel, Jack McCullough, and Charles Litton, who together pioneered vacuum tube manufacturing in the Bay Area, were hobbyists with training in technology gained locally who participated in development of shortwave radio by the ham radio hobby. High frequency, and especially, Very high frequency, VHF, transmission in the 10 meter band, required higher quality power tubes than were manufactured by the consortium of RCA, Western Electric, General Electric, Westinghouse which controlled vacuum tube manufacture. Litton, founder of Litton Industries, pioneered manufacturing techniques which resulted in award of wartime contracts to manufacture transmitting tubes for radar to Eitel - McCullough, a San Bruno firm, which manufactured power - grid tubes for radio amateurs and aircraft radio equipment. Welfare capitalism A union organizing drive in 1939 -- 40 at Eitel - McCullough by the strong Bay Area labor movement was fought off by adoption of a strategy of welfare capitalism which included pensions and other generous benefits, profit sharing, and such extras as a medical clinic and a cafeteria. An atmosphere of cooperation and collaboration was established. Successes have been few and far between for union organizing drives by UE and others in subsequent years. U.S. response to Sputnik On October 4, 1957 the Soviet Union launched the first space satellite, Sputnik, which sparked fear that the Soviet Union was pulling ahead technologically. After President Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act ( NASA ), he turned to Fairchild Semiconductor, then the only company in the world that was able to make transistors. The president funded Fairchild 's project, which was highly successful. Stanford University Stanford University, its affiliates, and graduates have played a major role in the development of this area. Some examples include the work of Lee De Forest with his invention of a pioneering vacuum tube called the Audion and the oscilloscopes of Hewlett - Packard. A very powerful sense of regional solidarity accompanied the rise of Silicon Valley. From the 1890s, Stanford University 's leaders saw its mission as service to the West and shaped the school accordingly. At the same time, the perceived exploitation of the West at the hands of eastern interests fueled booster - like attempts to build self - sufficient indigenous local industry. Thus, regionalism helped align Stanford 's interests with those of the area 's high - tech firms for the first fifty years of Silicon Valley 's development. During the 1940s and 1950s, Frederick Terman, as Stanford 's dean of engineering and provost, encouraged faculty and graduates to start their own companies. He is credited with nurturing Hewlett - Packard, Varian Associates, and other high - tech firms, until what would become Silicon Valley grew up around the Stanford campus. Terman is often called `` the father of Silicon Valley ''. In 1956, William Shockley, the creator of the transistor, moved from New Jersey to Mountain View, California, to start Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory to live closer to his ailing mother in Palo Alto. Shockley 's work served as the basis for many electronic developments for decades. During 1955 -- 85, solid state technology research and development at Stanford University followed three waves of industrial innovation made possible by support from private corporations, mainly Bell Telephone Laboratories, Shockley Semiconductor, Fairchild Semiconductor, and Xerox PARC. In 1969, the Stanford Research Institute ( now SRI International ), operated one of the four original nodes that comprised ARPANET, predecessor to the Internet. Stanford industrial Park After World War II, universities were experiencing enormous demand due to returning students. To address the financial demands of Stanford 's growth requirements, and to provide local employment opportunities for graduating students, Frederick Terman proposed the leasing of Stanford 's lands for use as an office park, named the Stanford Industrial Park ( later Stanford Research Park ) in the year 1951. Leases were limited to high technology companies. Its first tenant was Varian Associates, founded by Stanford alumni in the 1930s to build military radar components. However, Terman also found venture capital for civilian technology start - ups. One of the major success stories was Hewlett - Packard. Founded in Packard 's garage by Stanford graduates William Hewlett and David Packard, Hewlett - Packard moved its offices into the Stanford Research Park shortly after 1953. In 1954, Stanford created the Honors Cooperative Program to allow full - time employees of the companies to pursue graduate degrees from the University on a part - time basis. The initial companies signed five - year agreements in which they would pay double the tuition for each student in order to cover the costs. Hewlett - Packard has become the largest personal computer manufacturer in the world, and transformed the home printing market when it released the first thermal drop - on - demand ink jet printer in 1984. Other early tenants included Eastman Kodak, General Electric, and Lockheed. The Silicon transistor In 1953, William Shockley left Bell Labs in a disagreement over the handling of the invention of the transistor. After returning to California Institute of Technology for a short while, Shockley moved to Mountain View, California, in 1956, and founded Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory. Unlike many other researchers who used germanium as the semiconductor material, Shockley believed that silicon was the better material for making transistors. Shockley intended to replace the current transistor with a new three - element design ( today known as the Shockley diode ), but the design was considerably more difficult to build than the `` simple '' transistor. In 1957, Shockley decided to end research on the silicon transistor. As a result of Shockley 's abusive management style, eight engineers left the company to form Fairchild Semiconductor ; Shockley referred to them as the `` traitorous eight ''. Two of the original employees of Fairchild Semiconductor, Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore, would go on to found Intel. Computer networking April 23, 1963 J.C.R. Licklider, the first director of the Information Processing Techniques Office ( IPTO ) at The Pentagon 's ARPA issued an office memorandum rescheduling a meeting in Palo Alto addressed to `` Members and Affiliates of the Intergalactic Computer Network ''. regarding his vision of a computer network which he `` imagined as an electronic commons open to all, ' the main and essential medium of informational interaction for governments, institutions, corporations, and individuals. ' '' As head of IPTO from 1962 to 1964, `` Licklider initiated three of the most important developments in information technology : the creation of computer science departments at several major universities, time - sharing, and networking. '' By the late 1960s, his promotion of the concept had inspired a primitive version of his vision called ARPANET, which expanded into a network of networks in the 1970s that became the Internet. Immigration reform The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 and other factors such as the mass exodus by Vietnamese boat people resulted in significant immigration, particularly by Asians, Latinos, and Portuguese, to Silicon Valley where they contributed to both the high - tech and production workforce. The Asian - American population in Santa Clara County rose from 43,000 in 1970 to 430,000 in 2000. During the same period the Latino population grew to 24 % in the county and 30 % in San Jose. The African - American population in the county remained steady but grew slightly to about 5 %. Expansion of the H - 1B visa in 1990 also played a role. History ( 1971 and later ) Chips Main article : Invention of the integrated circuit In April 1974, Intel released the Intel 8080, a `` computer on a chip '', `` the first truly usable microprocessor ''. A microprocessor incorporates the functions of a computer 's central processing unit ( CPU ) on a single integrated circuit ( IC ). Homebrew Computer Club Main article : Microcomputer revolution Invitation to first Homebrew Computer Club meeting ( sent to Steve Dompier ). The Homebrew Computer Club was an informal group of electronic enthusiasts and technically minded hobbyists who gathered to trade parts, circuits, and information pertaining to DIY construction of computing devices. It was started by Gordon French and Fred Moore who met at the Community Computer Center in Menlo Park. They both were interested in maintaining a regular, open forum for people to get together to work on making computers more accessible to everyone. The first meeting was held as of March 1975 at French 's garage in Menlo Park, San Mateo County, California ; which was on occasion of the arrival of the MITS Altair microcomputer, the first unit sent to the area for review by People 's Computer Company. Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs credit that first meeting with inspiring them to design the original Apple I and ( successor ) Apple II computers. As a result, the first preview of the Apple I was given at the Homebrew Computer Club. Subsequent meetings were held at an auditorium at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. Venture capital firms By the early 1970s, there were many semiconductor companies in the area, computer firms using their devices, and programming and service companies serving both. Industrial space was plentiful and housing was still inexpensive. The growth was fueled by the emergence of the venture capital industry on Sand Hill Road, beginning with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital in 1972 ; the availability of venture capital exploded after the successful $1.3 billion IPO of Apple Computer in December 1980. Media In 1980, Intelligent Machines Journal - a hobbyist journal - changed its name to InfoWorld, and, with offices in Palo Alto, began covering the explosive emergence of the microcomputer industry in the valley. Software Although semiconductors are still a major component of the area 's economy, Silicon Valley has been most famous in recent years for innovations in software and Internet services. Silicon Valley has significantly influenced computer operating systems, software, and user interfaces. Using money from NASA, the US Air Force, and ARPA, Doug Engelbart invented the mouse and hypertext - based collaboration tools in the mid-1960s and 1970s while at Stanford Research Institute ( now SRI International ), first publicly demonstrated in 1968 in what is now known as The Mother of All Demos. Engelbart 's Augmentation Research Center at SRI was also involved in launching the ARPANET ( precursor to the Internet ) and starting the Network Information Center ( now InterNIC ). Xerox hired some of Engelbart 's best researchers beginning in the early 1970s. In turn, in the 1970s and 1980s, Xerox 's Palo Alto Research Center ( PARC ) played a pivotal role in object - oriented programming, graphical user interfaces ( GUIs ), Ethernet, PostScript, and laser printers. While Xerox marketed equipment using its technologies, for the most part its technologies flourished elsewhere. The diaspora of Xerox inventions led directly to 3Com and Adobe Systems, and indirectly to Cisco, Apple Computer, and Microsoft. Apple 's Macintosh GUI was largely a result of Steve Jobs ' visit to PARC and the subsequent hiring of key personnel. Cisco 's impetus stemmed from the need to route a variety of protocols over Stanford 's campus Ethernet. The Internet Commercial use of the Internet became practical and grew slowly throughout the early 1990s. In 1995, commercial use of the Internet grew substantially and the initial wave of internet startups, Amazon.com, eBay, and the predecessor to Craigslist began operations. Internet bubble Silicon Valley is generally considered to have been the center of the dot - com bubble, which started in the mid-1990s and collapsed after the NASDAQ stock market began to decline dramatically in April 2000. During the bubble era, real estate prices reached unprecedented levels. For a brief time, Sand Hill Road was home to the most expensive commercial real estate in the world, and the booming economy resulted in severe traffic congestion. Early 21st Century After the dot - com crash, Silicon Valley continues to maintain its status as one of the top research and development centers in the world. A 2006 The Wall Street Journal story found that 12 of the 20 most inventive towns in America were in California, and 10 of those were in Silicon Valley. San Jose led the list with 3,867 utility patents filed in 2005, and number two was Sunnyvale, at 1,881 utility patents. Silicon Valley is also home to a significant number of `` Unicorn '' ventures, referring to startup companies whose valuation has exceeded $1 billion dollars. Economy Overview Silicon Valley has a social and business ethos that supports innovation and entrepreneurship. Attempts to create `` Silicon Valleys '' in environments where disruptive innovation does not go over well have a poor track record. According to a 2008 study by AeA in 2006, Silicon Valley was the third largest high - tech center ( cybercity ) in the United States, behind the New York metropolitan area and Washington metropolitan area, with 225,300 high - tech jobs. The Bay Area as a whole however, of which Silicon Valley is a part, would rank first with 387,000 high - tech jobs. Silicon Valley has the highest concentration of high - tech workers of any metropolitan area, with 285.9 out of every 1,000 private - sector workers. Silicon Valley has the highest average high - tech salary at $144,800. Largely a result of the high technology sector, the San Jose - Sunnyvale - Santa Clara, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area has the most millionaires and the most billionaires in the United States per capita. The region is the biggest high - tech manufacturing center in the United States. The unemployment rate of the region was 9.4 % in January 2009, up from 7.8 % in the previous month. Silicon Valley received 41 % of all U.S. venture investment in 2011, and 46 % in 2012. More traditional industries also recognize the potential of high - tech development, and several car manufacturers have opened offices in Silicon Valley to capitalize on its entrepreneurial ecosystem. Manufacture of transistors is, or was, the core industry in Silicon Valley. The production workforce was for the most part composed of Asian and Latina immigrants who were paid low wages and worked in hazardous conditions due to the chemicals used in the manufacture of integrated circuits. Technical, engineering, design, and administrative staffs were in large part well compensated. Many more jobs ( 400,000 during the period 2010 to 2015 ) are created in Silicon Valley than housing built ( 60,000 units during the period 2010 to 2015 ). Housing prices are extremely high, far out of the range of production workers. As of 2016 a two - bedroom apartment rented for about $2,500 while the median home price was about $1 million. The Financial Post called Silicon Valley the most expensive U.S. housing region. Homelessness is a problem with housing beyond the reach of middle - income residents ; there is little shelter space other than in San Jose which, as of 2015, was making an effort to develop shelters by renovating old hotels. Notable companies See also : Category : Companies based in Silicon Valley Thousands of high technology companies are headquartered in Silicon Valley. Among those, the following 39 are in the Fortune 1000 : Adobe Systems Advanced Micro Devices ( AMD ) Apple Inc. Cisco Systems eBay Intel Intuit Nvidia Oracle Sun Microsystems Yahoo ! Adobe Systems Advanced Micro Devices ( AMD ) Agilent Technologies Alphabet Inc. Apple Inc. Applied Materials Brocade Communications Systems Cisco Systems eBay Electronic Arts Facebook Google Hewlett Packard Enterprise HP Inc. Intel Intuit Juniper Networks KLA Tencor Lam Research LSI Logic Marvell Semiconductors Maxim Integrated Products National Semiconductor NetApp Netflix Nvidia Oracle Corporation Riverbed Technology Salesforce.com SanDisk Sanmina - SCI Symantec Tesla Motors Visa Inc. VMware 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 Hewlett - Packard ) 8x8 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 Anritsu AstraQom Asus ( headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan ) Atari Atmel Broadcom ( headquartered in Irvine, California ) BEA Systems ( acquired by Oracle Corporation ) Cadence Design Systems 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 Flex ( formally Flextronics ) Foundry Networks Fujitsu ( headquartered in Tokyo, Japan ) GoPro Groupon ( headquartered in Chicago, IL ) Harmonic, Inc. HCL Technologies ( headquartered in Noida, India ) Hitachi Data Systems Hitachi Global Storage Technologies IBM Almaden Research Center ( headquartered in Armonk, New York ) Infosys ( headquartered in Bangalore, India ) Informatica Intuitive Surgical LinkedIn ( acquired by Microsoft ) Logitech Lucasfilm Maxtor ( acquired by Seagate ) McAfee ( acquired by Intel ) Memorex ( acquired by Imation and moved to Cerritos, California ) MetricStream 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 ) Palm, Inc. ( acquired by Hewlett - Packard ) Panasonic ( headquartered in Osaka, Japan ) PARC PayPal ( it has been demerged from eBay ) Pixar Playdom PlayPhone Qualcomm, Inc. ( HQ in San Diego, CA ) Quanta Computer Quantcast Quora Rambus Roku, Inc. RSA Security ( acquired by EMC ) Samsung Electronics ( headquartered in Suwon, South Korea ) Samsung Research America ( headquartered in Suwon, South Korea ) SAP SE ( headquartered in Walldorf, Germany ) Siemens ( headquartered in Berlin and Munich, Germany ) SolarCity Sony ( headquartered in Tokyo, Japan ) Sony Ericsson Sony Interactive Entertainment Square, Inc. SRI International Sun Microsystems ( acquired by Oracle Corporation ) SunPower SurveyMonkey Synopsys Inc. Tata Consultancy Services ( headquartered in Mumbai, India ) Tibco Software TiVo TSMC Twitter Uber ( company ) VA Software ( Slashdot ) Verifone VeriSign Veritas Software ( split off from Symantec ) VMware WebEx ( acquired by Cisco Systems ) @ WalmartLabs YouTube ( acquired by Google ) Yelp, Inc. Zynga Silicon Valley is also home to the high - tech superstore retail chain Fry 's Electronics. Notable government facilities Moffett Federal Airfield NASA Ames Research Center ( Located inside Moffett ) Onizuka Air Force Station Demographics Depending on what geographic regions are included in the meaning of the term, the population of Silicon Valley is between 3.5 and 4 million. A 1999 study by AnnaLee Saxenian for the Public Policy Institute of California reported that a third of Silicon Valley scientists and engineers were immigrants and that nearly a quarter of Silicon Valley 's high - technology firms since 1980 were run by Chinese ( 17 percent ) or Indian CEOs ( 7 percent ). There is a stratum of well - compensated technical employees and managers, including 10s of thousands of `` single - digit millionaires. '' This income and range of assets will support a middle - class lifestyle in Silicon Valley. Diversity See also : Occupational inequality and Sexism in the technology industry In November 2006, the University of California, Davis released a report analyzing business leadership by women within the state. The report showed that although 103 of the 400 largest public companies headquartered in California were located in Santa Clara County ( the most of all counties ), only 8.8 % of Silicon Valley companies had women CEOs. This was the lowest percentage in the state. ( San Francisco County had 19.2 % and Marin County had 18.5 %. ) Silicon Valley tech leadership positions are occupied almost exclusively by men. This is also represented in the number of new companies founded by women as well as the number of women - lead startups that receive venture capital funding. Wadhwa said he believes that a contributing factor is a lack of parental encouragement to study science and engineering. He also cited a lack of women role models and noted that most famous tech leaders -- like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg -- are men. In 2014, tech companies Google, Yahoo !, Facebook, Apple, and others, released corporate transparency reports that offered detailed employee breakdowns. In May, Google said 17 % of its tech employees worldwide were women, and, in the U.S., 1 % of its tech workers were black and 2 % were Hispanic. June 2014 brought reports from Yahoo ! and Facebook. Yahoo ! said that 15 % of its tech jobs were held by women, 2 % of its tech employees were black and 4 % Hispanic. Facebook reported that 15 % of its tech workforce was female, and 3 % was Hispanic and 1 % was black. In August, Apple reported that 80 % of its global tech staff was male and that, in the U.S., 54 % of its tech jobs were staffed by Caucasians and 23 % by Asians. Soon after, USA Today published an article about Silicon Valley 's lack of tech - industry diversity, pointing out that it is largely white or Asian, and male. `` Blacks and Hispanics are largely absent, '' it reported, `` and women are underrepresented in Silicon Valley -- from giant companies to start - ups to venture capital firms. '' Civil rights activist Jesse Jackson said of improving diversity in the tech industry, `` This is the next step in the civil rights movement '' while T.J. Rodgers has argued against Jackson 's assertions. As of October 2014, some high - profile Silicon Valley firms were working actively to prepare and recruit women. Bloomberg reported that Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft attended the 20th annual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference to actively recruit and potentially hire female engineers and technology experts. The same month, the second annual Platform Summit was held to discuss increasing racial and gender diversity in tech. As of April 2015 experienced women were engaged in creation of venture capital firms which leveraged women 's perspectives in funding of startups. After UC Davis published its Study of California Women Business Leaders in November 2006, some San Jose Mercury News readers dismissed the possibility that sexism contributed in making Silicon Valley 's leadership gender gap the highest in the state. A January 2015 issue of Newsweek magazine featured an article detailing reports of sexism and misogyny in Silicon Valley. The article 's author, Nina Burleigh, asked, `` Where were all these offended people when women like Heidi Roizen published accounts of having a venture capitalist stick her hand in his pants under a table while a deal was being discussed ? '' Silicon Valley firms ' board of directors are composed of 15.7 % women compared with 20.9 % in the S&P 100. The 2012 lawsuit Pao v. Kleiner Perkins was filed in San Francisco County Superior Court by executive Ellen Pao for gender discrimination against her employer, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. The case went to trial in February 2015. On March 27, 2015 the jury found in favor of Kleiner Perkins on all counts. Nevertheless, the case, which had wide press coverage, resulted in major advances in consciousness of gender discrimination on the part of venture capital and technology firms and their women employees. Two other cases have been filed against Facebook and Twitter. Schools Funding for public schools in upscale Silicon Valley communities such as Woodside, California is often supplemented by grants from private foundations set up for that purpose and funded by local residents. Schools in less favorable demographics such as East Palo Alto, California must depend on state funding. Municipalities Map visualization of traditional Silicon Valley in red, San Francisco in maroon / brown, Berkeley - Emeryville tech hub in peach. Tech companies by no means are relegated to these areas, and are found all over the bay. The following Santa Clara County cities are actually located in the Santa Clara Valley and based on that status are traditionally considered to be in Silicon Valley ( in alphabetical order ) : Campbell Cupertino Los Altos Los Altos Hills Los Gatos Milpitas Monte Sereno Morgan Hill Mountain View Palo Alto San Jose Santa Clara Saratoga Sunnyvale In 2015, MIT researchers developed a novel method for measuring which towns are home to startups with higher growth potential. This defines Silicon Valley to center on the municipalities of Menlo Park, Mountain View, Palo Alto, and Sunnyvale. The following Bay Area cities are ( or were ) home to various high - tech companies ( or related firms like venture capital firms ) and have thereby become associated with Silicon Valley : San Mateo County Belmont Burlingame East Palo Alto Foster City Menlo Park Millbrae Redwood City San Bruno San Carlos San Mateo South San Francisco Alameda County Emeryville Fremont Newark Oakland Union City Santa Cruz County Santa Cruz Scotts Valley San Francisco County San Francisco Contra Costa County San Ramon Universities, colleges, and trade schools The Art Institute of California -- Sunnyvale California College of the Arts Carnegie Mellon University ( Silicon Valley campus ) California State University, East Bay, Hayward Cañada College Chabot College Cogswell Polytechnical College College of San Mateo De Anza College DeVry University Draper University Evergreen Valley College Foothill College Gavilan College Golden Gate University ( Silicon Valley Campus ) Hult International Business School International Culinary Center International Technological University John F. Kennedy University ( Campbell Campus ) Lincoln Law School of San Jose Menlo College Mills College Minerva Schools at KGI Mission College National University San Jose Campus Northwestern Polytechnic University ( Fremont ) 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 Singularity University Skyline College Stanford University University of California, Berkeley University of California, Santa Cruz, Silicon Valley Extension Campus University of California, San Francisco University of San Francisco South Bay Campus West Valley College Art galleries and museums See also : List of attractions in Silicon Valley Silicon Valley 's first internationally known art gallery, Pace Art and Technology Gallery in Menlo Park, opened on February 6, 2016. In 1928, the Allied Arts Guild was formed in Menlo Park and is a complex of artist studios, shops, restaurant, and gardens. Some museums in Silicon Valley include ; Burlingame Museum of PEZ Memorabilia, Computer History Museum, Children 's Discovery Museum of San Jose, CuriOdyssey, De Saisset Museum at Santa Clara University, Filoli Estate, Forbes Mill, Hiller Aviation Museum, the HP Garage, the Intel Museum, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, Japanese American Museum of San Jose, Los Altos History Museum, Moffett Field Historical Society Museum, Museum of American Heritage, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo, Portuguese Historical Museum, Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, San Mateo County History Museum, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles Sunnyvale Heritage Park Museum, The Tech Museum of Innovation, Viet Museum, Winchester Mystery House, Media outlets Local and national media cover Silicon Valley and its companies. CNN, The Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg News operate Silicon Valley bureaus out of Palo Alto. Public broadcaster KQED ( TV ) and KQED - FM, as well as the Bay Area 's local ABC station KGO - TV, operate bureaus in San Jose. KNTV, NBC 's local Bay Area affiliate `` NBC Bay Area '', is located in San Jose. Produced from this location is the nationally distributed TV Show `` Tech Now '' as well as the CNBC Silicon Valley bureau. San Jose - based media serving Silicon Valley include the San Jose Mercury News daily and the Metro Silicon Valley weekly. Specialty media include El Observador and the San Jose / Silicon Valley Business Journal. Most of the Bay Area 's other major TV stations, newspapers, and media operate in San Francisco or Oakland. Patch.com operates various web portals, providing local news, discussion and events for residents of Silicon Valley. Mountain View has a public nonprofit station, KMVT - 15. KMVT - 15 's shows include Silicon Valley Education News ( EdNews ) - Edward Tico Producer. Cultural references Appearances in media, in order by release date. The Maltese Falcon -- 1941 movie starring Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor, she visits Sam Spade 's office in Burlingame A View to a Kill -- 1985 James Bond movie Dangerous Minds -- 1995 movie about a retired U.S. Marine LouAnne Johnson, who took up a teaching position at Carlmont High School in Belmont, California Triumph of the Nerds : The Rise of Accidental Empires -- 1996 documentary Felicity -- 1998 -- 2002 TV series, Felicity Porter grows up in Palo Alto Pirates of Silicon Valley -- 1999 movie House of Sand and Fog -- 2003 movie, an unclear Bay Area coastal location in movie, filmed in San Mateo County Knight Rider -- 2008 made - for - television movie Haunting of Winchester House -- 2009 movie The Social Network -- 2010 movie Startups Silicon Valley -- reality TV series, debuted 2012 on Bravo Silicon Valley Education News ( EdNews ) - KMVT - 15 ( Producer Edward Tico ) -- debuted 2015 Betas -- TV series, debuted 2013 on Amazon Video Jobs -- 2013 movie The Internship -- 2013 film about working at Google Silicon Valley -- 2014 American sitcom from HBO Watch Dogs 2 -- 2016 video game developed by Ubisoft See also San Francisco Bay Area portal See also : the categories Companies based in Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley people, and Tourist attractions in Silicon Valley. 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Retrieved 2016 - 03 - 30. Jump up ^ `` Michelle Pfeiffer Acts With Class / ` Dangerous Minds ' uses teacher plot well ''. SFGate. 1996. Retrieved 2016 - 03 - 30. Jump up ^ `` House of Sand and Fog ''. IMDB. Retrieved 2006 - 03 - 30. Jump up ^ `` Start - Ups : Silicon Valley ''. IMDB. Retrieved 2016 - 03 - 30. Jump up ^ `` Betas ''. IMDB. Retrieved 2016 - 03 - 30. Further reading Books Bronson, Po ( 2013 ). The Nudist On The Lateshift : and Other Tales of Silicon Valley. Random House. ISBN 978 - 1 - 4481 - 8964 - 9. Cringely, Robert X. ( 1996 ) ( 1992 ). Accidental Empires : How the boys of Silicon Valley make their millions, battle foreign competition, and still ca n't get a date. HarperCollins. ISBN 978 - 0 - 88730 - 855 - 0. English - Lueck, June Anne ( 2002 ). Cultures@Silicon Valley. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978 - 0 - 8047 - 4429 - 4. Hayes, Dennis ( 1990 ) ( 1989 ). Behind the Silicon Curtain : The Seductions of Work in a Lonely Era. Black Rose Books. ISBN 978 - 0 - 921689 - 62 - 1. Kaplan, David A. ( 2000 ). The Silicon Boys : And Their Valleys Of Dreams. HarperCollins. ISBN 978 - 0 - 688 - 17906 - 9. Koepp, Rob. Clusters of Creativity : Enduring Lessons on Innovation and Entrepreneurship from Silicon Valley and Europe 's Silicon Fen. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978 - 0 - 470 - 85566 - 9. Lécuyer, Christophe Lécuyer ( 2006 ) ( 2005 ). Making Silicon Valley : Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930 -- 1970. Chemical Heritage Foundation. ISBN 978 - 0 - 262 - 12281 - 8. Levy, Steven ( 2014 ) ( 1984 ). Hackers : Heroes of the Computer Revolution. O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978 - 1 - 4493 - 8839 - 3. O'Mara, Margaret Pugh ( 2015 ) ( 2004 ). Cities of Knowledge : Cold War Science and the Search for the Next Silicon Valley : Cold War Science and the Search for the Next Silicon Valley. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978 - 1 - 4008 - 6688 - 5. Pellow, David N ; Park, Lisa Sun - Hee ( 2002 ). The Silicon Valley of Dreams : Environmental Injustice, Immigrant Workers, and the High - tech Global Economy. New York University Press. ISBN 978 - 0 - 8147 - 6710 - 8. Saxenian, AnnaLee ( 1996 ). Regional Advantage : Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978 - 0 - 674 - 75340 - 2. Scoville, Thomas ( 2001 ). Silicon Follies ( Fiction ). Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978 - 0 - 7434 - 1945 - 1. Whiteley, Carol ; McLaughlin, John ( 2002 ). Technology, Entrepreneurs and Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley Historical Association. ISBN 0 - 9649217 - 1 - 5. Journals and newspapers Kantor, Jodi ( December 23, 2014 ). `` A Brand New World In Which Men Ruled ''. New York Times. Koenig, Neil ( February 9, 2014 ). `` Next Silicon Valleys : How did California get it so right ? ''. BBC News. Malone, Michael S. ( January 30, 2015 ). `` The Purpose of Silicon Valley ''. MIT Technology Review. Norr, Henry ( December 27, 1999 ). `` Growth of a Silicon Empire ''. San Francisco Chronicle. Palmer, Barbara ( February 4, 2004 ). `` Red tile roofs in Bangalore : Stanford 's look copied in Silicon Valley and beyond ''. Stanford Report. Schulz, Thomas ( March 4, 2015 ). `` Tomorrowland : How Silicon Valley Shapes Our Future ''. Der Spiegel. Sturgeon, Timothy J. ( December 2000 ). `` Chapter Two : How Silicon Valley Came to Be '' ( PDF ). Industrial Performance Center. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Williams, James C. ( December 2013 ). `` From White Gold to Silicon Chips : Hydraulic Technology, Electric Power and Silicon Valley ''. Social Science Information ( Abstract ). Sage Publications. 52 ( 4 ) : 558 -- 574. ( Subscription required for full text. ) Audiovisual Silicon Valley : A Five Part Series ( DVD ). Narrated by Leonard Nimoy. Silicon Valley Historical Association. 2012. `` A Weekend in Silicon Valley ''. New York Times ( Slideshow ). August 27, 2010. Silicon Valley : A Five Part Series ( DVD ). Narrated by Leonard Nimoy. Silicon Valley Historical Association. 2012. External links Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Silicon Valley. 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Question: which industry has a large presence in the silicon valley
Answer: high-tech