Sunnyvale

Sunnyvale is a city located in Santa Clara County, California. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 140,095.Sunnyvale is the seventh most populous city in the San Francisco Bay Area and one of the major cities comprising Silicon Valley. It is bordered by portions of San Jose to the north, Moffett Federal Airfield to the northwest, Mountain View to the west, Los Altos to the southwest, Cupertino to the south, and Santa Clara to the east. It lies along the historic El Camino Real and Highway 101.As part of California's high-tech area known as Silicon Valley, Sunnyvale is the headquarters location of several technology companies including LinkedIn, Juniper Networks, Fortinet, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), NetApp, Spansion, Yahoo!, AppliedMicro, and Ariba. It is also a major operating center for Amazon (Lab126), Apple, Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Microsoft, Nokia and Walmart.com as well. It is also home to several aerospace/defense companies: Lockheed Martin has a major facility in Sunnyvale, and Honeywell, Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems - Marine Systems (formerly Joshua Hendy Iron Works), Finisar, and Spirent also have offices there. Sunnyvale was also the home to Onizuka Air Force Station, often referred to as "the Blue Cube" due to the color and shape of its windowless main building. The facility, previously known as Sunnyvale Air Force Station, was named for the deceased Space Shuttle Challenger astronaut Ellison Onizuka. It served as an artificial satellite control facility of the United States armed forces until August 2010 and has since been decommissioned and demolished.