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South Bay
Looking west over northern San Jose (downtown is at far left) and other parts of
Silicon Valley
Main articles: South Bay (San Jose, California) and Silicon Valley
The communities along the southern edge of the Bay are known as the South Bay,
Santa Clara Valley, and Silicon Valley. Some Peninsula and East Bay towns are
sometimes included in the latter. It includes the city of San Jose
sjno and Almaden Valley
Almaden , and its
outlying neighbors including Gilroy and the high-tech hubs of Mountain View,
Santa Clara, Milpitas, Cupertino cupertino , Palo Alto, Sunnyvale as well as many other
suburbs like Los Altos, Saratoga, Campbell and Los Gatos. Home of Silicon
Valley, the South Bay was also an early development of working and middle class
families who left the coastal cities of the Eastern Bay south of Oakland and
Alameda. Large numbers of families during the post-World War era also moved
there for the aerospace industry. This area has long been developed and expanded
and is often featured as a stereotype of the typical California suburban city.
Today, the growth continues, primarily fueled by technology and cheap immigrant
workers. The result has been a huge increase in the value of property forcing
many middle class families out of the area or into nascent ghettos in older
sections of the region.
Befitting of the title Silicon Valley, this region is home to a vast number of
technology sector giants. Some notable tech companies headquartered in the South
Bay are Intel, AMD, Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard, Apple Computer, Google, and
Yahoo!. As a consequence of the rapid growth of these and other companies, the
South Bay has gained increasing political and economic influence both within
California and throughout the world.
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