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Silicon Forest

March 12, 2023

This article is about an area in Northwestern United States. For the district in Novosibirsk, Russia, see Akademgorodok.

Silicon Forest is a nickname for the Washington County cluster of high-tech companies located in the Portland metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Oregon, and most frequently refers to the industrial corridor between Beaverton and Hillsboro in northwest Oregon.

Intel's Ronler Acres campus in Hillsboro, Oregon

The name is analogous to Silicon Valley. In the greater Portland area, these companies have traditionally specialized in hardware — specifically test-and-measurement equipment (Tektronix), computer chips (Intel and an array of smaller chip manufacturers), electronic displays (InFocus, Planar Systems and Pixelworks) and printers (Hewlett-Packard Co, Xerox and Epson). There is a small clean technology emphasis in the area.[1]

History

 
Mentor (A Siemens Business) headquarters in Wilsonville

Silicon Forest can refer to all the technology companies in Oregon,[2] but initially referred to Washington County on Portland’s west side. First used in a Japanese company’s press release dating to 1981, Lattice Semiconductor trademarked the term in 1984 but does not use the term in its marketing materials.[2] Lattice’s founder is sometimes mentioned as the person who came up with the term.[2]

The high-tech industry in the Portland area dates back to at least the 1940s, with Tektronix and Electro Scientific Industries as pioneers.[3] Tektronix and ESI both started out in Portland proper, but moved to Washington County in 1951 and 1962, respectively, and developed sites designed to attract other high-tech companies.[3] Floating Point Systems, co-founded by three former Tektronix employees in Beaverton in 1970, was the first spin-off company in Silicon Forest and the third (after Tek and ESI) to be traded on the NYSE.[4] These three companies, and later Intel, led to the creation of a number of other spin-offs and startups, some of which were remarkably successful. A 2003 dissertation on these spin-offs led to a poster depicting the genealogy of 894 Silicon Forest companies.[5] High-tech employment in the state reached a peak of almost 73,000 in 2001, but has never recovered from the dot-com bust. Statewide, tech employment totaled 57,000 in the spring of 2012.[6]

Unlike other regions with a "silicon" appellation, semiconductors truly are the heart of Oregon's tech industry.

Intel's headquarters remain in Santa Clara, California, but in the 1990s the company began moving its most advanced technical operations to Oregon. Its Ronler Acres campus eventually became its most advanced anywhere, and Oregon is now Intel's largest operating hub. In late 2012, Intel had close to 17,000 employees in Oregon—more than anywhere else the company operated;[7] by 2022, the number had grown to about 22,000.[8]

Companies and subsidiaries

The following is a sample of past and present notable companies in the Silicon Forest. They may have been founded in the Silicon Forest or have a major subsidiary there. A list of Portland tech startups (technology companies founded in Portland) is provided separately.

Current

 
Genentech facility in Hillsboro

Former

 
Former SolarWorld US headquarters in Hillsboro, which closed in 2017 and was later used by SunPower, until 2021

See also

References

  1. ^ Alpern, Peter (October 4, 2010). . IndustryWeek. Archived from the original on October 30, 2010. Retrieved November 30, 2011.
  2. ^ a b c Rogoway, Mike (April 9, 2006). Bizz blog: Silicon Forest. The Oregonian.
  3. ^ a b Manaton, Michael E. (August 4, 1994). "Tektronix began 'Silicon Forest' boom". The Oregonian (MetroWest edition).
  4. ^ G.B. Dodds, C.E. Wollner & M.M. Lee, The Silicon Forest, Oregon Historical Society Press, 1990, pp. 46-55.
  5. ^ "Silicon Forest Universe". Portland State University: The Institute for Portland Metropolitan Studies. Retrieved June 28, 2010.
  6. ^ Rogoway, Mike (July 26, 2012). "Investment in Oregon tech companies heats up, but employment hasn't bounced back". The Oregonian.
  7. ^ Rogoway, Mike (October 25, 2012). "Intel makes a bet on the future, and Oregon, with massive Hillsboro expansion". The Oregonian.
  8. ^ Davidson, Kate (March 15, 2022). "Oregon's largest private employer, Intel, announces plans to expand in Europe". OPB. from the original on March 16, 2022. Retrieved March 19, 2022.
  9. ^ "ADTRAN Acquires SmartRG—Leading Provider of Connected Home Software Platforms & Cloud Services". December 18, 2018. Retrieved September 15, 2019.
  10. ^ Rogoway, Mike (May 30, 2018). "Apple quietly opens Oregon engineering lab, poaches from Intel". The Oregonian. Retrieved September 15, 2019.
  11. ^ a b c d Rogoway, Mike (September 2010). "Silicon Forest 25 - 2010" (PDF). The Oregonian. Retrieved September 20, 2010.
  12. ^ Cathy Cheney (November 26, 2014). "Cool Spaces: Inside eBay's growing Portland office, which has a personality all its own". Portland Business Journal. Retrieved March 22, 2015.
  13. ^ About Epson Portland Inc. October 7, 2007, at the Wayback Machine Epson Portland Inc. Retrieved on October 8, 2007.
  14. ^ https://use.expensify.com/
  15. ^ Spencer, Malia (August 25, 2017). "Why Expensify Picked Portland". Portland Business Journal.
  16. ^ Rogoway, Mike (April 5, 2010). "Genentech opens in Hillsboro, fueling Oregon's biotech aspirations". The Oregonian. Retrieved June 19, 2010.
  17. ^ a b Tims, Dana (December 8, 2005). "Metro West Neighbors: Emerging suburb built on silicon". The Oregonian. p. 9.
  18. ^ Suh, Elizabeth (October 28, 2007). "Intel's impact on community helps other businesses thrive". The Oregonian.
  19. ^ Rogoway, Mike (April 12, 2015). "A look inside Jaguar Land Rover's Portland research lab". OregonLive.
  20. ^ Rogoway, Mike (June 15, 2010). "Kryptiq sets move as it adds employees". The Oregonian.
  21. ^ "Kyocera opens $10M Vancouver facility". The Columbian. April 20, 2017. Retrieved September 15, 2019.
  22. ^ Rogoway, Mike (May 17, 2006). "Laika's place in the Silicon Forest". The Oregonian.
  23. ^ Rogoway, Mike (July 18, 2013). "Mozilla will expand Portland office, add staff and lease its own space". The Oregonian. Retrieved August 3, 2015.
  24. ^ Rogoway, Mike (January 27, 2021). "Microsoft poaches Intel VP for big new Hillsboro engineering site". The Oregonian. Retrieved June 20, 2021.
  25. ^ Rogoway, Mike (May 14, 2010). "Chip manufacturers plan to grow, Hillsboro rebounds: Silicon Forest week in review". The Oregonian. Retrieved June 20, 2010.
  26. ^ The Oregonian (March 12, 2010). "2010 Oregon Technology Awards finalists named". The Oregonian. Retrieved March 14, 2010.
  27. ^ Siemers, Erik (November 29, 2011). "Google, Cisco, VMware invest $8.5M in Puppet Labs". Portland Business Journal. Retrieved November 30, 2011.
  28. ^ "Apple lawsuit against chipmaking startup Rivos alleges theft of trade secrets". SiliconANGLE. May 2, 2022. Retrieved December 30, 2022.
  29. ^ http://www.sharplabs.com/index.php/about-sla/locations Sharp Laboratories of America
  30. ^ https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2015/12/14/entirely-mobile-bank-simple-relies-on-personal-touches/74392280/ USA Today. Retrieved on April 14, 2016
  31. ^ http://www.skyworksinc.com Skyworks Inc.
  32. ^ http://www.wallstreetdaily.com/2011/11/08/app-developers-ride-on-urban-airship-push-notifications/ Wall St. Daily. Retrieved November 12, 2011
  33. ^ Venture Capitalists loosen purse strings for startups Portland Business Journal. Retrieved on July 23, 2010
  34. ^ Rogoway, Mike (July 27, 2017). "Vevo, music video titan, grows Portland engineering outpost". The Oregonian.
  35. ^ Kosseff, Jeffrey (May 14, 2002). "Xerox's Wilsonville unit continues to make strides". The Oregonian. p. C1.
  36. ^ Siemers, Erik (December 18, 2009). "ClearEdge hums along". Portland Business Journal. Retrieved February 18, 2010.
  37. ^ a b Read, Richard (March 7, 2004). "Racing the world". The Oregonian.
  38. ^ Rogoway, Mike (May 1, 2018). "Jive Software: A Cautionary Tale". The Oregonian.
  39. ^ Marum, Anna (July 11, 2017). "Microsoft to close Wilsonville plant, lay off 124 workers". OregonLive.
  40. ^ a b Pursinger, Geoff (October 15, 2018). "Here comes the sun: SunPower takes over SolarWorld plant". Portland Tribune. Retrieved March 19, 2022.
  41. ^ Rogoway, Mike (January 7, 2021). "SunPower will close former SolarWorld factory in Hillsboro, lay off 170". The Oregonian. Retrieved March 19, 2022.

External links

 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Silicon Forest.
  • Wollner, Craig. "Silicon Forest". The Oregon Encyclopedia.
  • The Oregonian's Silicon Forest Blog
  • Portland Tech portal at AboutUs.org
  • Silicon Florist: Coverage of the web-based startup scene

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This article is about an area in Northwestern United States For the district in Novosibirsk Russia see Akademgorodok This article uses bare URLs which are uninformative and vulnerable to link rot Please consider converting them to full citations to ensure the article remains verifiable and maintains a consistent citation style Several templates and tools are available to assist in formatting such as Reflinks documentation reFill documentation and Citation bot documentation August 2022 Learn how and when to remove this template message Silicon Forest is a nickname for the Washington County cluster of high tech companies located in the Portland metropolitan area in the U S state of Oregon and most frequently refers to the industrial corridor between Beaverton and Hillsboro in northwest Oregon Intel s Ronler Acres campus in Hillsboro Oregon The name is analogous to Silicon Valley In the greater Portland area these companies have traditionally specialized in hardware specifically test and measurement equipment Tektronix computer chips Intel and an array of smaller chip manufacturers electronic displays InFocus Planar Systems and Pixelworks and printers Hewlett Packard Co Xerox and Epson There is a small clean technology emphasis in the area 1 Contents 1 History 2 Companies and subsidiaries 2 1 Current 2 2 Former 3 See also 4 References 5 External linksHistory Edit Mentor A Siemens Business headquarters in Wilsonville Silicon Forest can refer to all the technology companies in Oregon 2 but initially referred to Washington County on Portland s west side First used in a Japanese company s press release dating to 1981 Lattice Semiconductor trademarked the term in 1984 but does not use the term in its marketing materials 2 Lattice s founder is sometimes mentioned as the person who came up with the term 2 The high tech industry in the Portland area dates back to at least the 1940s with Tektronix and Electro Scientific Industries as pioneers 3 Tektronix and ESI both started out in Portland proper but moved to Washington County in 1951 and 1962 respectively and developed sites designed to attract other high tech companies 3 Floating Point Systems co founded by three former Tektronix employees in Beaverton in 1970 was the first spin off company in Silicon Forest and the third after Tek and ESI to be traded on the NYSE 4 These three companies and later Intel led to the creation of a number of other spin offs and startups some of which were remarkably successful A 2003 dissertation on these spin offs led to a poster depicting the genealogy of 894 Silicon Forest companies 5 High tech employment in the state reached a peak of almost 73 000 in 2001 but has never recovered from the dot com bust Statewide tech employment totaled 57 000 in the spring of 2012 6 Unlike other regions with a silicon appellation semiconductors truly are the heart of Oregon s tech industry Intel s headquarters remain in Santa Clara California but in the 1990s the company began moving its most advanced technical operations to Oregon Its Ronler Acres campus eventually became its most advanced anywhere and Oregon is now Intel s largest operating hub In late 2012 Intel had close to 17 000 employees in Oregon more than anywhere else the company operated 7 by 2022 the number had grown to about 22 000 8 Companies and subsidiaries EditThe following is a sample of past and present notable companies in the Silicon Forest They may have been founded in the Silicon Forest or have a major subsidiary there A list of Portland tech startups technology companies founded in Portland is provided separately This list is incomplete you can help by adding missing items March 2012 Current Edit Genentech facility in Hillsboro Act On Adtran after acquired a startup named SmartRG 9 Aistock Airbnb Amazon Web Services via acquisition of Elemental Technologies Ambric acquired by Nethra Imaging in April 2009 Apple Inc Software Engineering in Vancouver WA This was previously the Claris products group and a new R amp D facility around Hillsboro 10 Arris Group via acquisition of C COR ASML Holding Atos Autodesk Inc Biotronik Brandlive Cambia Health Solutions HealthSparq Hubbub and SpendWell Cascade Microtech CD Baby CollegeNET Consumer Cellular 11 DAT Solutions Digimarc 11 eBay 12 Electro Scientific Industries EPSON 13 Expensify 14 15 Extensis Thermo Fisher Scientific via acquisition of FEI Company FLIR Systems ForgeRock GemStone Systems Genentech 16 Google Grass Valley Hewlett Packard IBM by acquisition of Sequent InFocus 17 Intel 18 Integra Telecom 11 IP Fabrics IXIA Jaguar Land Rover 19 Janrain Kryptiq Corporation 20 Kyocera 21 LaCie Laika 22 Lam Research through merging with Novellus Systems Lattice Semiconductor Lightspeed Systems Linear Technology Logitech Maxim Integrated Products McAfee Mentor Graphics 17 Mozilla 23 Microchip Technology purchased Fujitsu old facility Microsoft especially for hardware engineering design center 24 New Relic Engineering Headquarters Nike Inc Consumer Digital Division Nvidia Corporation NuScale Power OpenSesame Inc ON Semiconductor 25 Oracle Corporation by acquisition of Sun Microsystems Oregon Scientific Panic Software PacStar Phoseon Technology 26 Pivotal Labs Pixelworks Planar Systems Pop Art Inc Puppet 27 Qorvo RadiSys Corporation Razorfish Rentrak RFPIO Rivos 28 Rohde amp Schwarz Rockwell Collins Sage Software by the acquisition of Timberline Salesforce com Sensory Inc Sharp Corporation 29 Silicon Labs Siltronic Simple 30 Shimadzu Corp Skyworks by the acquisition of Avnera 31 Smarsh Sellgo SurveyMonkey Squarespace Synopsys Tektronix Tripwire Urban Airship 32 Vacasa VeriWave 33 Vernier Software amp Technology 11 Vevo 34 Wacom North American Headquarters are based in Portland WaferTech TSMC subsidiary Webtrends WebMD Welch Allyn Workday Inc Xerox 35 ZoomInfo Former Edit Former SolarWorld US headquarters in Hillsboro which closed in 2017 and was later used by SunPower until 2021 BiiN defunct Central Point Software defunct ClearEdge Power 36 Etec Systems Inc acquired by Applied Materials Floating Point Systems defunct Fujitsu factory closed sold to Microchip Technology 37 Jive Software acquired amp closed 38 MathStar defunct Merix Corporation acquired by Viasystems Microsoft s Surface Hub R amp D closed down 39 nCUBE Beaverton HQ was established in 1983 Acquired by C COR in 2005 which was in turn acquired by ARRIS in 2007 CommScope acquired ARRIS in 2019 and closed the Beaverton office in the aftermath of the COVID 19 pandemic NEC factory closed 37 Open Source Development Labs defunct Oregon Graduate Institute merged with OHSU in 2001 Washington County campus closed in 2014 Sequent Computer Systems purchased by IBM in 1993 Sequent founded by a team that included three Intel VPs and 15 other employees also mostly from Intel made a major contribution to multiprocessing and was largely responsible for the demise of large minicomputers which could be replaced by much smaller and cheaper micro processor based multiprocessor systems It went public in 1987 and was beginning to also encroach on the market for large mainframe transaction processing systems when IBM bought it out SolarWorld 40 SunPower in former SolarWorld facility 40 41 See also EditList of places with Silicon namesReferences Edit Alpern Peter October 4 2010 Portland Cultivates Future as Hub for Manufacturing Alternative Energy IndustryWeek Archived from the original on October 30 2010 Retrieved November 30 2011 a b c Rogoway Mike April 9 2006 Bizz blog Silicon Forest The Oregonian a b Manaton Michael E August 4 1994 Tektronix began Silicon Forest boom The Oregonian MetroWest edition G B Dodds C E Wollner amp M M Lee The Silicon Forest Oregon Historical Society Press 1990 pp 46 55 Silicon Forest Universe Portland State University The Institute for Portland Metropolitan Studies Retrieved June 28 2010 Rogoway Mike July 26 2012 Investment in Oregon tech companies heats up but employment hasn t bounced back The Oregonian Rogoway Mike October 25 2012 Intel makes a bet on the future and Oregon with massive Hillsboro expansion The Oregonian Davidson Kate March 15 2022 Oregon s largest private employer Intel announces plans to expand in Europe OPB Archived from the original on March 16 2022 Retrieved March 19 2022 ADTRAN Acquires SmartRG Leading Provider of Connected Home Software Platforms amp Cloud Services December 18 2018 Retrieved September 15 2019 Rogoway Mike May 30 2018 Apple quietly opens Oregon engineering lab poaches from Intel The Oregonian Retrieved September 15 2019 a b c d Rogoway Mike September 2010 Silicon Forest 25 2010 PDF The Oregonian Retrieved September 20 2010 Cathy Cheney November 26 2014 Cool Spaces Inside eBay s growing Portland office which has a personality all its own Portland Business Journal Retrieved March 22 2015 About Epson Portland Inc Archived October 7 2007 at the Wayback Machine Epson Portland Inc Retrieved on October 8 2007 https use expensify com Spencer Malia August 25 2017 Why Expensify Picked Portland Portland Business Journal Rogoway Mike April 5 2010 Genentech opens in Hillsboro fueling Oregon s biotech aspirations The Oregonian Retrieved June 19 2010 a b Tims Dana December 8 2005 Metro West Neighbors Emerging suburb built on silicon The Oregonian p 9 Suh Elizabeth October 28 2007 Intel s impact on community helps other businesses thrive The Oregonian Rogoway Mike April 12 2015 A look inside Jaguar Land Rover s Portland research lab OregonLive Rogoway Mike June 15 2010 Kryptiq sets move as it adds employees The Oregonian Kyocera opens 10M Vancouver facility The Columbian April 20 2017 Retrieved September 15 2019 Rogoway Mike May 17 2006 Laika s place in the Silicon Forest The Oregonian Rogoway Mike July 18 2013 Mozilla will expand Portland office add staff and lease its own space The Oregonian Retrieved August 3 2015 Rogoway Mike January 27 2021 Microsoft poaches Intel VP for big new Hillsboro engineering site The Oregonian Retrieved June 20 2021 Rogoway Mike May 14 2010 Chip manufacturers plan to grow Hillsboro rebounds Silicon Forest week in review The Oregonian Retrieved June 20 2010 The Oregonian March 12 2010 2010 Oregon Technology Awards finalists named The Oregonian Retrieved March 14 2010 Siemers Erik November 29 2011 Google Cisco VMware invest 8 5M in Puppet Labs Portland Business Journal Retrieved November 30 2011 Apple lawsuit against chipmaking startup Rivos alleges theft of trade secrets SiliconANGLE May 2 2022 Retrieved December 30 2022 http www sharplabs com index php about sla locations Sharp Laboratories of America https www usatoday com story money personalfinance 2015 12 14 entirely mobile bank simple relies on personal touches 74392280 USA Today Retrieved on April 14 2016 http www skyworksinc com Skyworks Inc http www wallstreetdaily com 2011 11 08 app developers ride on urban airship push notifications Wall St Daily Retrieved November 12 2011 Venture Capitalists loosen purse strings for startups Portland Business Journal Retrieved on July 23 2010 Rogoway Mike July 27 2017 Vevo music video titan grows Portland engineering outpost The Oregonian Kosseff Jeffrey May 14 2002 Xerox s Wilsonville unit continues to make strides The Oregonian p C1 Siemers Erik December 18 2009 ClearEdge hums along Portland Business Journal Retrieved February 18 2010 a b Read Richard March 7 2004 Racing the world The Oregonian Rogoway Mike May 1 2018 Jive Software A Cautionary Tale The Oregonian Marum Anna July 11 2017 Microsoft to close Wilsonville plant lay off 124 workers OregonLive a b Pursinger Geoff October 15 2018 Here comes the sun SunPower takes over SolarWorld plant Portland Tribune Retrieved March 19 2022 Rogoway Mike January 7 2021 SunPower will close former SolarWorld factory in Hillsboro lay off 170 The Oregonian Retrieved March 19 2022 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Silicon Forest Wollner Craig Silicon Forest The Oregon Encyclopedia The Oregonian s Silicon Forest Blog Portland Tech portal at AboutUs org Silicon Florist Coverage of the web based startup scene Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Silicon Forest amp oldid 1136544166, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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