Sunnyvale

The City of Sunnvale is located about 3 miles (5 km) northwest of the Cupertino headquarters of Apple Inc. in California.

Statistics
With a population of 155,805 as of 2020, Sunnyvale is the of California and the  in the United States.

History
In 1901, the local residents decided to use the name Sunnyvale for their post office, after being informed that the names Encinal or Murphy could not be used. The residents voted to formally incorporate the City of Sunnyvale on December 24, 1912.

Technology industry
In 1971, Bill Fernandez, the son of the mayor of Sunnyvale with the same name, collaborated with classmate Steve Wozniak on the Cream Soda, an early computer board design, in the Fernandez family garage in Sunnyvale. The two would later work together on developing the Apple I and II at Apple Computer.

In September 1972, Atari installed a prototype of, the first coin-operated arcade video game, in a local bar by the name of Tavern (now known as Rooster T. Feathers). Within a few days, the tavern manager called Atari engineer Al Alcorn to service the machine because the coin mechanism had become completely stuffed with s.

Sunnyvale has also become the home to the offices of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and In 2019, Apple completed construction of its new Wolfe Campus there.