Here's a rundown on some big-name tech outposts in the Portland area, and how they got here.
Amazon: Bought Elemental Technologies for $296 million in October. Elemental, which had 250 employees at the time of the deal, says Amazon plans increase the size of the Portland office. The company has expanded to two more floors of its downtown office and is in the market for a new, larger space in the city.
Airbnb: Opened customer-service outpost in Old Town in 2014. The company has recently begun hiring Portland software engineers, too.
Apple: Now the world's largest tech company, Apple opened an office in east Vancouver in the early 1990s and moved it downtown several years later. Apple won't discuss its Vancouver operations, but employees there work on office-productivity software.
Aruba Networks: Acquired Portland startup Meridian for $26 million in 2013. Aruba, now owned by Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, made Portland a key outpost and opened a new downtown office with 70 employees last spring - up from 14 at the time of the Meridian deal.
Dell: Acquired Portland cloud-computing startup RNA Networks in 2011. RNA had had 20 employees at the time of the deal; Dell now employs 100 in Old Town.
eBay: Bought Portland mobile-software developer Critical Path in 2010. The online marketplace made its downtown Portland office a center for eBay's mobile development, and the company now employs 200 here.
Google: Purchased Tualatin web developer Instantiations in 2010 and moved operations to downtown Portland. Google is expanding local operations, leasing a new downtown office with room for dozens of workers. Google had initially planned to move in to the new space this fall, but now says it will move sometime early in 2016.
HP Inc.: Hewlett-Packard Opened printer manufacturing in Vancouver in 1979, later adding research and marketing. It once employed more than 3,000 there, but HP downsized beginning in the early 2000s and sold its east Vancouver campus in 2009. HP now leases another site nearby and is said to be growing, focused in part on 3D printing.
IBM: Bought Sequent Computer Systems for $810 million in 1999 and made Beaverton a major software hub, helping ignite Oregon's open-source cluster. IBM's local office is now in Hillsboro.
Intel: Recruited by Tektronix, Intel opened its Fab 4 semiconductor production plant in Aloha in 1976 - its first plant outside the Silicon Valley. Intel later added factories and corporate offices in Hillsboro. It's now Intel's largest site, employing 18,600, including many top executives and the chipmaker's most advanced research.
Jaguar Land Rover: Lured by a partnership with Intel, JLR opened a 35-person Portland technology research lab in 2014. It's adding a tech incubator and 50 more engineers.
Lam Research: Manufacturing and engineering in Tualatin (formerly Novellus.)
Linear Technology: The analog chipmaker opened its Camas factory in 1996. It told Clark County business advocates last year it was near a decision to build a second, but those plans remain on hold.
Maxim Integrated Products: Bought semiconductor factory from Tektronix in 1994 and later established a separate research outpost in Hillsboro. Maxim is now in the process of closing the Hillsboro facility and moving the 200 workers there to its site on the Tek campus, where it employs 480.
Microchip Technology: Analog chipmaker employs 400 in Gresham factory.
Microsoft: Acquired Perceptive Pixel in 2008 and made the startup's Wilsonville office a focus for developing and manufacturing large-format touchscreens. Microsoft now employs "a couple hundred" there, where it makes the giant Surface Hub computer - due to go on sale in January for between $5,800 to $17,000, depending on the model.
New Relic: San Francisco software analytics company put its engineering office in the U.S. Bancorp Tower in downtown Portland.
Nvidia: Graphics chip company has engineering offices in Washington County.
ON Semiconductor: Arizona-based chipmaker has its most advanced factory in Gresham.
Oracle: Assembles computer servers in Hillsboro, an operation that traces its roots to Oregon supercomputing pioneer Floating Point Systems.
Salesforce: Opened five-story, 100,000-square-foot Hillsboro site in 2013.
Squarespace: New York website builder put a customer support office in Old Town in 2014. It just moved to larger quarters downtown.
SurveyMonkey: Founded in Portland, the online-survey specialist moved its headquarters to Silicon Valley in 2009 after its sale to private equity firms. As the company grew, though, it re-invested in Portland and now has a substantial office in the U.S. Bancorp Tower downtown.
Wacom: Digital graphics company opened Vancouver design and sales office in 1989. Now employs 160 there, but plans to move to Portland's Pearl District in 2016.
Xerox: Paid $950 million in 2000 for Tektronix's color printing operations in Wilsonville, where it still has hundreds of employees.
Yahoo: Opened customer-service site in Hillsboro in 2005. Co-founder Jerry Yang attended the opening.
Correction: The list has been corrected to indicate Lam Research now owns Novellus.
-- Mike Rogoway
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