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===Former=== [[File:SolarWorld-Hillsboro.jpg|thumb|Former SolarWorld US headquarters in [[Hillsboro, Oregon|Hillsboro]], which closed in 2017 and was later used by SunPower, until 2021]] *[[BiiN]] (defunct) *[[Central Point Software]] (defunct) *[[ClearEdge Power]]<ref>{{cite news|url=http://portland.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2009/12/21/story2.html|title=ClearEdge hums along|last=Siemers|first=Erik|date=December 18, 2009|work=Portland Business Journal|access-date=February 18, 2010}}</ref> *[[Etec Systems, Inc.]] (acquired by [[Applied Materials]]) *[[Floating Point Systems]] (defunct) *[[Fujitsu]] (factory closed, sold to [[Microchip Technology]])<ref name=closed>Read, Richard (March 7, 2004). "Racing the world". ''[[The Oregonian]]''.</ref> *[[Jive Software]] (acquired & closed)<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2018/05/jive_software_an_inspiration_a.html|title=Jive Software: A Cautionary Tale|date=May 1, 2018|newspaper=The Oregonian|last=Rogoway|first=Mike}}</ref> *[[MathStar]] (defunct) *[[Merix Corporation]] (acquired by Viasystems) *Microsoft's Surface Hub R&D (closed down)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2017/07/microsoft_to_close_wilsonville.html|title=Microsoft to close Wilsonville plant, lay off 124 workers|date=July 11, 2017|publisher=OregonLive|last=Marum|first=Anna}}</ref> *[[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 Corporation|NEC]] (factory closed)<ref name=closed/> *[[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]]<ref name="here comes the sun">{{cite news |last1=Pursinger |first1=Geoff |title=Here comes the sun: SunPower takes over SolarWorld plant |url=https://portlandtribune.com/pt/9-news/409101-308188-here-comes-the-sun-sunpower-takes-over-solarworld-plant |access-date=March 19, 2022 |work=[[Portland Tribune]] |date=October 15, 2018}}{{dead link|date=May 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> *[[SunPower]] (in former SolarWorld facility)<ref name="here comes the sun"/><ref>{{cite news |last1=Rogoway |first1=Mike |title=SunPower will close former SolarWorld factory in Hillsboro, lay off 170 |url=https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2021/01/sunpower-will-close-former-solarworld-factory-in-hillsboro-lay-off-170.html |access-date=March 19, 2022 |work=[[The Oregonian]] |date=January 7, 2021}}</ref>
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