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Since the "list" is getting so long, how does everyone feel about changing the list to something like this:

Adaptec | Adobe Systems | Advanced Micro Devices | Agilent | Altera | Apple Computer | Applied Materials | Atmel | BEA Systems | Cadence Design Systems | Cisco Systems | Cypress Semiconductor | eBay | Electronic Arts | Google | Handspring | Hewlett-Packard | Intel | Intuit | Knight-Ridder | Juniper Networks | Maxtor | McAfee | National Semiconductor | Network Appliance | NVIDIA Corporation | Oracle Corporation | Palm, Inc. | PalmOne, Inc. | PayPal | Rambus | Silicon Graphics | Sun Microsystems | Symantec | Synopsys | Tivo | Verisign | Yahoo!

I've seen this done elsewhere in the 'pedia for lists that get... well... really long. :-) — Frecklefoot | Talk 20:19, Aug 19, 2004 (UTC)

I wouldn't object. Elf | Talk 23:14, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Done. :-) Actually, now I want to do the same thing to the list of cities, but I'll wait for any backlash regarding this change first. — Frecklefoot | Talk 13:49, Aug 20, 2004 (UTC)

Actually the change got me thinking that one issue is the word "notable". So I looked up the Forbes 500 and broke the list into 2 pieces; now the first part isn't arguable. :-) I did NOT look thru the whole 500 list to try to figure out whether there are SV companies that aren't on our list. Someone could do that, but it might be challenging... Also I could argue that any company that has ever been on the Forbes 500 (or Fortune 500, I suppose) should be listed here... because otherwise it would have to be checked every year, and things like PayPal, which I think got bought by eBay, would disappear from the list whereas it's interesting to note that they were started in SV orginally. Elf | Talk 20:37, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I'm challenging this edit deleting the entire section I had added to the article about Silicon Valley law firms. User:Cristiano Tomás stated: "law firm section is barely notable and not deserving of a section".

In most of the developed world, low-rise suburban offices are usually seen as too tacky for law firms, except sole proprietors and mom-and-pop small law firms. It's always fascinating to see how most large law firms' offices are all found in high-rise towers in downtown areas, with one or two exceptions. The exception is usually the office in Silicon Valley, which is usually found in a two-story structure in Redwood City, Menlo Park, Palo Alto, or Mountain View. Those law firms rarely venture beyond downtowns unless they have a very good reason.

If you read the history of Silicon Valley, a huge portion of that history is the history of big deals and big lawsuits, and lots of lawyers are often involved. (For example, The Social Network (2010) used depositions as a framing device.) That's why big law firms keep piling into the Valley, rather than staying in San Francisco. And that should be noted in the article. Coolcaesar ( talk) 20:52, 29 January 2023 (UTC) reply

Yes, the law firms section was well-founded, and it should be returned to the article. For the same reasons, the venture capital section should be expanded. Binksternet ( talk) 21:09, 29 January 2023 (UTC) reply

Done. -- Coolcaesar ( talk) 19:43, 9 July 2023 (UTC) reply

We should have a section about high-tech pollution, one that talks about the toxic superfund cleanup sites in Silicon Valley. The Wall Street Journal wrote a piece in 2010, The New York Times wrote a piece in 2018, and The Atlantic wrote a piece in 2019. Of course local news has covered the problem, for instance NBC News in 2014 and the San Francisco Chronicle in 2019. India Currents published an article in 2020 saying that Santa Clara County's 23 superfund sites were the largest number of sites in any US county.

Suffice to say that this problem is definitely part of the literature about Silicon Valley. Binksternet ( talk) 20:55, 25 April 2023 (UTC) reply

The following company photos are currently featured: Google, Meta, Samsung, Intel, Netflix, Tesla, Adobe, Oracle, PayPal, Yahoo, and Cisco.

I propose to remove Samsung because it's a branch office, Tesla and Oracle because they moved to Texas, and Yahoo because it moved to New York and is now a shadow of its former self. There are hundreds of companies from all over the world which have "innovation center" branch offices in the Bay Area and it's not clear why Samsung is more prominent than the others.

I propose to add the following companies which are still based in the Valley and are prominent: Western Digital and eBay. Any objections? Coolcaesar ( talk) 20:13, 9 July 2023 (UTC) reply

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 23 August 2023 and 13 December 2023. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Rellis2 ( article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by Rellis2 ( talk) 16:50, 6 December 2023 (UTC) reply