ID
Company
City
Sector
Founded
Ceo
1
Apple
Cupertino
Consumer IT
1976
Tim Cook
2
Hewlett-Packard
Palo Alto
Enterprise IT
1939
Meg Whitman
3
Google
Mountain View
Web
1998
Larry Page
4
Intel
Santa Clara
Chips
1968
Brian Krzanich
5
Cisco Systems
San Jose
Networking
1984
John Chambers
6
Oracle
Redwood City
Enterprise IT
1977
Larry Ellsion
7
eBay
San Jose
Web
1995
John Donahoe
8
Gilead Sciences
Foster City
Biotech/Health Care
1987
John Martin
9
Synnex
Fremont
Enterprise IT
1980
Kevin Murai
10
Applied Materials
Santa Clara
Chips
1967
Gary Dickerson
11
Facebook
Menlo Park
Web
2004
Mark Zuckerberg
12
Symantec
Mountain View
Enterprise IT
1982
Michael Brown
13
Agilent Technologies
Santa Clara
Enterprise IT
1999
Bill Sullivan
14
NetApp
Sunnyvale
Enterprise IT
1992
Tom Georgens
15
SanDisk
Milpitas
Consumer IT
1988
Sanjay Mehrotra
16
Sanmina-SCI
San Jose
Enterprise IT
1980
Jure Sola
17
Advanced Micro Devices
Sunnyvale
Chips
1969
Rory Read
18
VMware
Palo Alto
Enterprise IT
1998
Pat Gelsinger
19
Yahoo!
Sunnyvale
Web
1994
Marissa Mayer
20
Juniper Networks
Sunnyvale
Networking
1996
Shaygan Kheradpir
21
Netflix
Los Gatos
Web
1997
Reed Hastings
22
Intuit
Mountain View
Consumer IT
1983
Brad Smith
23
Nvidia
Santa Clara
Chips
1993
Jen-Hsun Huang
24
Salesforce.com
San Francisco
Enterprise IT
1999
Marc Benioff
25
Adobe Systems
San Jose
Consumer IT
1982
Shantanu Narayen
26
Lam Research
Fremont
Chips
1980
Martin Anstice
27
Electronic Arts
Redwood City
Consumer IT
1982
Andrew Wilson
28
Varian Medical Systems
Palo Alto
Biotech/Health Care
1948
Dow Wilson
29
KLA-Tencor
Milpitas
Chips
1997
Rick Wallace
30
SunPower
San Jose
Cleantech
1985
Tom Werner
31
Maxim Integrated Products
San Jose
Chips
1983
Tunç Doluca
32
LSI
San Jose
Chips
1981
Abhi Talwakar
33
Xilinx
San Jose
Chips
1984
Moshe Gavrielov
34
Trimble Navigation
Sunnyvale
Enterprise IT
1978
Steven Bergland
35
Intuitive Surgical
Sunnyvale
Biotech/Health Care
1995
Gary Guthart
36
Brocade Communications
San Jose
Networking
1995
Lloyd Carney
37
Equinix
Redwood City
Networking
1998
Stephen Smith
38
Bio-Rad Laboratories
Hercules
Biotech/Health Care
1952
Normal Schwartz
39
Tesla Motors
Palo Alto
Cleantech
2003
Elon Musk
40
Synopsys
Mountain View
Chips
1986
Aart de Geus and Chi-Foon Chan
41
Altera
San Jose
Chips
1983
John Daane
42
VeriFone Systems
San Jose
Enterprise IT
1981
Paul Galant
43
JDS Uniphase
Milpitas
Networking
1979
Thomas Waechter
44
LinkedIn
Mountain View
Web
2002
Jeff Weiner
45
Cadence Design Systems
San Jose
Chips
1988
Lip-Bu Tan
46
Omnivision Technologies
Santa-Clara
Chips
1995
Shaw Hong
47
Fairchild Semiconductor
San Jose
Chips
1957
Mark Thompson
48
Atmel
San Jose
Chips
1984
Steven Laub
49
Netgear
San Jose
Networking
1996
Patrick Lo
50
Polycom
Pleasanton
Networking
1990
Peter Leav