Silicon Forest
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The Silicon Forest is a nickname for the Portland metropolitan area in Oregon and Southwest Washington. Like the Silicon Valley, it refers to the cluster of high tech companies present there. In Portland, these companies specialize in
- output devices like displays and printers
- semiconductor device fabrication
- software
and related areas.
The high-tech industry in the Portland area dates back to at least the 1940s, with Tektronix and Electro Scientific Industries as pioneers. These two companies, and later Intel, led to the creation of a number of spin-offs or start-ups, some of which were remarkably successful. A 2003 dissertation of these spin-offs led to a poster depicting the genealogy of Silicon Forest companies that can be found in many workplaces in the area.
[edit] Companies and subsidiaries
The following is a partial list of past and present companies founded in the Silicon Forest or which have a major subsidiary located there:
- Ambric
- AppleSource Software
- Answerconnect
- Atlas Telecom
- Autodesk
- BiiN
- Central Point Software
- C-COR (by the acquisition of nCube)
- Digimarc
- FEI Company
- FLIR Systems
- Floating Point Systems
- GemStone Systems
- Hewlett-Packard
- IBM (by acquisition of Sequent and Informix)
- InFocus
- Informix Software
- Intel
- Lattice Semiconductor
- Mentor Graphics
- Merix Corporation
- Network Associates
- NEC
- Novellus Systems
- OSDL
- Panic Software
- Planar Systems
- RadiSys Corporation
- Sage Software (by the acquisition of Timberline)
- Sequent Computer Systems
- Sharp
- Sun Microsystems
- Symantec
- Synopsys
- Tektronix
- Thrustmaster
- Tripwire
- Rational Software
- WaferTech (TSMC subsidiary)
- WebMD
- WebTrends
- Xerox
- Yahoo!
[edit] See also
- List of places with 'Silicon' names
- Research Triangle Park
- The Oregonian newspaper's Silicon Forest Blog
