OregonLive: Silicon Forest

Oregonian photo by Fred JoeSam Blackman, ETI's chief, was one of three engineers who left Pixelworks to start something new.Elemental Technologies landed $7.1 million in VC today, a ray of hope from the state's moribund electronic display industry and it's...

ON Semiconductor, the Arizona company that owns the old LSI fab in Gresham, said this morning it will pay $115 million for Catalyst Semiconductor. "The acquisition of Catalyst Semiconductor will add to our high gross margin analog and mixed-signal product...

WiMAX carrier Clearwire tells me Portland is still at the forefront of the company's deployment plans for 2008, but don't expect a launch in the immediate future. The Kirkland company initially planned a launch here last spring, and Portland was...

Lattice Semiconductor's longtime CFO, Jan Johannessen, is leaving the company at month's end. A veteran of the Silicon Forest, Jan is one of the friendliest, most straightforward guys in the Silicon Forest. He filled in as CEO earlier this year...

Oregonian photo by Olivia BucksA peek inside D1DThe WSJ has a writeup in tomorrow's paper (sub. req'd) lauding Intel's research fab in Hillsboro, D1D. Intel has long maintained that the multibillion-dollar factory gives the company an edge in developing faster,...

A coup for TriQuintAs widely forecast, weekend dissections of the new iPhones confirm that TriQuint is a supplier in Apple's 3G model. Portelligent and Semiconductor Insights report that the PA (power amplifier) in the new gadget was made by TriQuint....

Stopped back at Apple's downtown store at lunch, and dropped in on AT&T;'s downtown outlet, too. The AT&T; store ran out of iPhones at 10 am. this morning, but sales folks are telling customers more phones will arrive tomorrow and...