Silicon Valley, in the San Francisco Bay area of California, was born in the 1950s as a set of companies established with the aim of generating scientific and technological innovations, especially in the production of electronic and computer chips. .
Right now it is the headquarters of many emerging and global technology companies. Adobe Systems, Apple Inc., eBay, Google, Intel, Oracle Corporation and Yahoo are among the most prominent.
It also has technological institutions around the Stanford University of Palo Alto.
The Computer History Museum and the NASA Ames Research Center are located in Mountain View. The Technological Museum of Innovation is in San José.