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Silicon Valley is located in Northern California at the southern end of San Francisco Bay. The area is home to many high-tech companies, including Hewlett Packard, Intel, Adobe, Yahoo, Google, Apple, Cisco, Oracle, and AMD.
Silicon Valley is actually a valley in the geographic sense. The proper name for the valley in which much of Silicon "Valley" resides is the Santa Clara Valley.