Firms.  

Silicon Valley’s habitat specializes in breeding high tech companies. Until now, there have been four strong waves of innovation in the region: electronic, integrated circuits (semiconductors), personal computers and Internet.  

Silicon Valley is now a very special cluster of IT firms, where are most of the world leaders of the main IT fields: integrated circuits (Intel, AMD, National Semiconductors), personal computers (Apple), workstations (Hewlett Packard, Sun Microsystems), 3D graphics (Silicon Graphics), database software (Oracle), network computing (Cisco, 3Com) and Internet (Google, Yahoo!, Ebay).  

The actual firms are in many senses inheritors of legendary Silicon Valley companies, among it must be remarked the case of Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation.

Legendary and actual leaders.

• Hewlett-Packard.

• Fairchild Semiconductor.

• Intel.

• Apple.

• Netscape.

• Yahoo!

• Ebay.

• Oracle.

• Cisco.

• Google.

• Facebook.

Startups .

• Directory of Silicon Valley's Startups.

• Coming: more on Firms.

• Coming: Analysis of Silicon Valley's Clusters.

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