# Mountain View A city in Santa Clara County, California, where [[wiki/William Shockley|William Shockley]] established [[wiki/Shockley Semiconductor|Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory]] in 1956. This decision physically located the semiconductor industry on the San Francisco Peninsula and initiated the chain of events — the [[wiki/Traitorous Eight|Traitorous Eight]] defection, the founding of [[wiki/Fairchild Semiconductor|Fairchild Semiconductor]] — that created [[wiki/Silicon Valley|Silicon Valley]]. Referenced in [[articles/Bell Labs and the Distributed Architecture of American Power|Bell Labs and the Distributed Architecture of American Power]].