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Research in Sunnyvale

Science Explorer records 66 research institutions in Sunnyvale, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are Advanced Micro Devices (United States), United Microelectronics (United States) and Intuitive Surgical (United States).

Research institutions
66
9 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
14k
▼ 21% vs 2013–17
Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
14.0%
record average 16.5%

A city carries no overall standing here. The composite score is built for institutions and countries, the units its floors and field normalisation were designed around. An empty rank on this page is a statement about the measure, not about the place.

Which research institutions are in Sunnyvale?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Fairchild Semiconductor (United States)Company 1,886 #3,216 all time
2Advanced Micro Devices (United States)Company 1,866 #8,313
3Yahoo (United States)Company 1,506 #4,656 all time
4Fujitsu (United States)Company 1,098 #19,729
5LinkedIn (United States)Company 609 #20,563
6United Microelectronics (United States)Company 574 #15,906
7Juniper Networks (United States)Company 521 #18,662 all time
8Eloret (United States)Company 483 #5,144 all time
9NetApp (United States)Company 469 #16,405
10SC Solutions (United States)Company 442 #20,969
11Infinera (United States)Company 413 #21,785
12Panorama Research (United States)Company 318 #23,504
13Intuitive Surgical (United States)Company 316 #16,149
14Rambus (United States)Company 300 #19,827 all time
15Sunnyvale Public LibraryArchive 282 #29,873 all time
16Finisar (United States)Company 249 #26,635 all time
17Galaxy Biotech (United States)Company 247 #26,945 all time
18Pharmacyclics (United States)Company 229 #14,363 all time
19Parkinson's Institute and Clinical CenterNonprofit 218 #9,782 all time
20Real-Time Innovations (United States)Company 204 #25,705 all time
21Molecular Medicine Research InstituteNonprofit 167 #19,527 all time
22Diagnostics for the Real World (United States)Company 162 #23,899 all time
23Singularity UniversityUniversity 159 #36,461 all time
24Trimble (United States)Company 146 #8,020 all time
25Advanced Rotorcraft Technology (United States)Company 123 #40,234 all time
2623andMe (United States)Company 122 #14,715 all time
27Accuray (United States)Company 120 #17,476 all time
28Integrated Systems Incorporation (United States)Company 114 not ranked
29Layton BioScience (United States)Company 69 not ranked
30DigiLens (United States)Company 67 not ranked
31Acellent Technologies (United States)Company 66 not ranked
323D Technology Laboratories (United States)Company 65 not ranked
33Altex Technologies Corporation (United States)Company 41 not ranked
34University of East-West MedicineUniversity 35 not ranked
35Alpha and Omega Semiconductor (United States)Company 32 not ranked
36Artium Technologies (United States)Company 30 not ranked
37Qusemde (United States)Company 25 not ranked
38Solid (United States)Company 24 not ranked
39Proofpoint (United States)Company 20 not ranked
40Herguan UniversityUniversity 20 not ranked
41Pragati Synergetic Research (United States)Company 17 not ranked
42Aqua Metrology Systems (United States)Company 15 not ranked
43Insilixa (United States)Company 12 not ranked
44Cogswell Polytechnical CollegeUniversity 12 not ranked
45OEpic Semiconductors (United States)Company 10 not ranked
46Silk Road Medical (United States)Company 10 not ranked
47Nvigen (United States)Company 9 not ranked
48Regenerative Sciences InstituteNonprofit 8 not ranked
49Protigen (United States)Company 7 not ranked
50EBR Systems (United States)Company 7 not ranked
51AraVasc (United States)Company 6 not ranked
52Theron Pharmaceuticals (United States)Company 6 not ranked
53Olympia Diagnostics (United States)Company 5 not ranked
54Gener8 (United States)Company 5 not ranked
55AOSense (United States)Company 5 not ranked
56Testco (United States)Company 4 not ranked
57Turner Designs (United States)Company 3 not ranked
58Zeno Semiconductor (United States)Company 3 not ranked
594C Air (United States)Company 3 not ranked
60Acuitus (United States)Company 3 not ranked

By fractional works over the whole record; world rank on research quality in 2022–2025. Bars are scaled to the largest institution in this city, not to anything off the page.

How concentrated the city is

The same institutions as shares of everything the list accounts for. A city that is one university and a city that is twelve read alike as a table and not at all alike here.

Fairchild Semiconductor (United States): 13.5%Advanced Micro Devices (United States): 13.3%Yahoo (United States): 10.8%Fujitsu (United States): 7.9%56 others listed: 54.6%13%largest
Fairchild Semiconductor (United States)1,886 · 13.5%Advanced Micro Devices (United States)1,866 · 13.3%Yahoo (United States)1,506 · 10.8%Fujitsu (United States)1,098 · 7.9%56 others listed7,631 · 54.6%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

What is Sunnyvale strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Sunnyvale is most concentrated in Hardware and Architecture, Computer Networks and Communications and Electrical and Electronic Engineering (17.1× the world share in Hardware and Architecture).

  1. Hardware and ArchitectureSubfield · 31.7 works17×
  2. Computer Networks and CommunicationsSubfield · 75.9 works5.2×
  3. Electrical and Electronic EngineeringSubfield · 198.7 works3.4×
  4. Artificial IntelligenceSubfield · 134.3 works3.4×
← less than its size predictsmore →

Location quotient against the world baseline. Inside a single field a city is a meaningful unit, which is why this is where a city is measured at all.

Which keywords describe research in Sunnyvale?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Neural Networks, Big Data, Distributed Systems, Parallel Computing, Optical Fiber and High-Performance Computing.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this city's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Deep Learning134▲ 2.4×76 topics
  2. Machine Learning111▲ 2.1×81 topics
  3. Neural Networks75▲ 3.0×35 topics
  4. Big Data52▲ 3.5×25 topics
  5. Energy Efficiency42▲ 2.7×26 topics
  6. Artificial Intelligence36▲ 1.59×33 topics
  7. Distributed Systems35▲ 13×6 topics
  8. Healthcare34▲ 1.81×21 topics
  9. Security30▲ 2.8×21 topics
  10. Parallel Computing27▲ 14×5 topics
  11. Data Mining26▲ 2.1×17 topics
  12. Optical Fiber26▲ 15×3 topics
  13. High-Performance Computing25▲ 19×2 topics
  14. Digital Signal Processing23▲ 29×2 topics
  15. Coherent Detection23▲ 33×1 topic
  16. Nonlinear Effects23▲ 33×1 topic
  17. Resource Management22▲ 7.8×4 topics
  18. Integrated Circuits22▲ 8.4×3 topics
  19. Microwave Photonics21▲ 14×2 topics
  20. Anomaly Detection21▲ 4.3×5 topics
  21. Robotic Surgery20▲ 8.7×5 topics
  22. IoT Security20▲ 3.7×3 topics
  23. Laparoscopic Surgery20▲ 10×3 topics
  24. Cloud Computing19▲ 4.2×11 topics
  25. Information Retrieval18▲ 5.0×4 topics
  26. Optical Access Networks16▲ 30×1 topic
  27. Performance Optimization16▲ 16×3 topics
  28. Photonic Signal Processing16▲ 30×1 topic
  29. Workflow Management16▲ 15×2 topics
  30. GPU Computing16▲ 26×1 topic
  31. Multicore Architectures16▲ 26×1 topic
  32. Text Classification16▲ 6.1×3 topics
  33. Topic Modeling15▲ 6.2×2 topics
  34. Optical Modulators15▲ 6.1×3 topics
  35. Virtualization15▲ 11×3 topics
  36. Raman Lasers14▲ 7.6×2 topics
  37. Silicon Photonics14▲ 7.8×2 topics
  38. Microcavities14▲ 7.5×1 topic
  39. Nanophotonic Waveguides14▲ 8.5×1 topic
  40. Fault Localization14▲ 12×2 topics

What research is done in Sunnyvale?

  1. 1 Optical Network Technologies Electrical and Electronic Engineering 23 works
  2. 2 Advanced Photonic Communication Systems Electrical and Electronic Engineering 16 works
  3. 3 Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques Hardware and Architecture 16 works
  4. 4 Topic Modeling Artificial Intelligence 14 works
  5. 5 Photonic and Optical Devices Electrical and Electronic Engineering 14 works
  6. 6 Advanced Optical Network Technologies Electrical and Electronic Engineering 13 works
  7. 7 Surgical Simulation and Training Surgery 13 works
  8. 8 Cloud Computing and Resource Management Information Systems 12 works
  9. 9 Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems Computer Networks and Communications 10 works
  10. 10 Advanced Data Storage Technologies Computer Networks and Communications 9 works

Research output over time

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