Birthplace of Silicon Valley

The plaque says the Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory “manufactured the first silicon devices in what became known as Silicon Valley,” and that hundreds of firms can trace their origins to it.

The site has sculptures of early Shockley and Fairchild devices and the large digits “391”.

Sources

• Milestones: Birthplace of Silicon Valley, 1956 - ETHW (IEEE)
• Beckman, Shockley and the 60th Anniversary of the Birth of Silicon Valley - Computer History Museum