Silicon Forest

Silicon Forest ( German as: " silicon forest "; analogous chosen to Silicon Valley) is the nickname for a region in northwest Oregon and southwest Washington, in the settled particularly in the 1980s and 1990s several technology companies. These include the semiconductor maker Intel, which has four factories with a total of 16,000 employees in Hillsboro. Other companies with offices and factories in the Silicon Forest, for example, Sun Microsystems, IBM, Hewlett Packard, Xerox, Yahoo!, Mentor Graphics, Lattice Semiconductor Corporation and Novellus Systems.