History
Fairchild helped make computer
components for the apollo program
many of the "traitorous Eight" left
Fairchild and founded thier own
companies
Companies Atari, Apple, and Oracle
were all founded in the area
San Jose became home to one of
the US's first radio stations.
Ames Research Center was
founded in the area
William Shockley coinvented the
transistor while at Bell Labs
The Navy purchased Moffett Field to
dock and maintain the USS Macon
William Hewlett and Dave Packard
founded Hewlett-Packard in Palo
Alto
Silicon Valley became the widely
accepted center of the computer
industry
HP made radar and artillery
technology
-late 1800s-
San Francisco port helped make a hub of
the early telegraph and radio industries
-1909-
-1933- the microprocessor was introduce,
which today is basically the
fundamental driving force and brain of
all of the companies
-1939-
-1940- eightShockley's
Shockley employees grow tired of
demeanor and left the
company
-1948-
-1955- Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce
founded their own company in Santa
Clara called Intel
-Sep. 18,1957-
-Early 1960s-
the Stanford Research Institute
became one of the four nodes of
ARPANET
-Late 1960s-
-1968- Journalist Don Hoefler titled a 3-part
report on the semiconductor
industry SILICON VALLEY USA."
-1969-
-1970- Shockley left Bell and founded his
own company-Shockley
Semiconductor Labs
-1971-
-1970s-
Xerox opened its PARC lab in Palo
Alto.
-1980s-eBay, Yahoo, PayPal, and Google are
just some of the companies founded
in the area.
-1990s-
Facebook, Twitter, Uber, and Tesla
-2000s- founded in the area Bell Labs
scientists discovered the transistor