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Hillboro manufactures 15% of all Chips made in the US and is one of the biggest Tech Hubs in the US- we don't give a shit about what Portland is doing. They h
by dirkknudsen 2y ago
Hillboro manufactures 15% of all Chips made in the US and is one of the biggest Tech Hubs in the US- we don't give a shit about what Portland is doing. They have a City Corporate Tax, Property taxes 2 X those of Hillsboro, and a horrible business climate. Intel has 20,000 jobs here- 1.300 sucks but we won't fold over that.
- alephnerd 2y agoWhat I mean is Hillsboro is not some town in the middle of nowhere like Champaign-Urbana, Rochester, or Ames. It's part of the larger Portland MSA, and Hillsboro-Beaverton has plenty of opportunities. That said, Intel leadership kept concentrating on Analog Chips for too long (which was overwhelming at the Hillsboro and Kiryat Gan foundries), which made this layoff and buyout situation extremely painful.