Silicon Valley - Notable Companies

Notable Companies

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

• Adobe Systems
• Advanced Micro Devices
• Agilent Technologies
• Align Technology
• Apple Inc.
• Applied Materials
• Cisco Systems
• eBay
• Google
• Hewlett-Packard
• Intel
• Intuit
• Juniper Networks
• KLA Tencor
• LSI Logic
• Marvell Semiconductors
• Maxim Integrated Products
• National Semiconductor
• NetApp
• Nvidia
• Oracle Corporation
• Salesforce.com
• SanDisk
• Sanmina-SCI
• Symantec
• Western Digital (headquartered in Irvine, California)
• Yahoo!

Additional notable companies headquartered (or with a significant presence) in Silicon Valley include (some defunct or subsumed):

• 3Com (acquired by HP)
• A10 Networks
• 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
• Ampex
• Antibody Solutions
• Aricent
• Asus
• Atari
• Atmel
• Broadcom (headquartered in Irvine, California)
• Brocade Communications Systems
• BEA Systems (acquired by Oracle Corporation)
• Business Objects (acquired by SAP)
• Chegg
• Cypress Semiconductor
• Electronic Arts
• EMC Corporation (headquartered in Hopkinton, Massachusetts)
• E*TRADE (headquartered in New York, NY)
• Facebook
• Fairchild Semiconductor
• Force10
• 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)
• IDEO
• Intuitive Surgical
• Kerio Technologies
• LinkedIn
• Logitech
• LynuxWorks
• 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 Siemens Networks (headquartered in Espoo, Finland)
• Netflix
• Netscape (acquired by AOL)
• NeXT Computer, Inc. (acquired by Apple)
• Ning
• NXP Semiconductors
• Olivetti (headquartered in Ivrea, Italy)
• Opera Software (headquartered in Oslo, Norway)
• OPPO
• Palm, Inc. (acquired by HP)
• PalmSource, Inc. (acquired by ACCESS)
• 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
• Riverbed Technology
• ROBLOX
• RSA (acquired by EMC)
• Redback Networks (acquired by Ericsson)
• Salesforce.com
• SAP AG (headquartered in Walldorf, Germany)
• Siemens (headquartered in Berlin and Munich, Germany)
• Silicon Graphics
• Silicon Image
• Solectron (acquired by Flextronics)
• Solstice (headquartered in Seattle)
• Sony (headquartered in Tokyo, Japan)
• Sony Ericsson
• SRI International
• Sun Microsystems (acquired by Oracle Corporation)
• SunPower
• Synopsys Inc.
• Tibco Software
• Tesla Motors
• TWiT
• Tellme Networks (acquired by Microsoft)
• TiVo
• Twitter
• VA Software (Slashdot)
• WebEx (acquired by Cisco Systems)
• VeriSign
• Veritas Software (acquired by Symantec)
• VMware
• Vocera
• Xilinx
• YouTube (acquired by Google)
• Yelp, Inc.
• Zoran Corporation

Silicon Valley is also home to the high-tech superstore retail chain Fry's Electronics.