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According to the Oregonian, Intel and Oregon were hoping to land this center. https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2024/10/biden-administration-picks-ny-n
by osnium123 2y ago
According to the Oregonian, Intel and Oregon were hoping to land this center.
https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2024/10/biden-administration-picks-ny-not-oregon-for-first-chips-act-research-hub.html https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2024/10/biden-admi...
- nxobject 2y agoYikes - Intel must not carry a lot of currency with federal planners any more. The fact that Oregon hasn't had a Portland-area research institution for decades in semi tech/hardware engineering probably doesn't help, either. [1] (Or the fact that Chuck Schumer represents NY.) [1] I know people in the 50s who used to work at the Oregon Graduate Institute, which was very adjacent to Tektronix, Intel, etc.
- osnium123 2y agoIt was a tragedy for the area when OGI basically vanished. I know a lot of people who earned graduate degrees while working at local companies.
- thijson 2y agoI took a class there while I lived in the area. The guy teaching it worked with me at Intel. It was a good local resource, sad when it was taken over by OHSU.
- osnium123 2y agoI suspect that the federal government thinks that Intel will go bankrupt and they don’t want to tie their center to a part of the country without much intellectual capital (no world class universities, etc).
- lotsofpulp 2y agoFeds are not going to let America’s best fabrication operator go out of business. But, now that the federal government is paying for it, federal legislators are going to want to see money flowing to various districts so they can tell their constituents how much money they brought back for them.
- insane_dreamer 2y agoThere is no way that the US is letting Intel fail -- having a strong competitor in advanced chips is a national security matter.
- osnium123 2y agoTSMC and Samsung are expanding fabs in the US so the US can make do without Intel if needed.
- smolder 2y agoYes, but so is Intel, thanks to the CHIPS act.
- insane_dreamer 2y agoNo, that’s very different from a government perspective, especially in TSMC’s case.
- insane_dreamer 2y agoRPI has a Quantum computer (courtesy of IBM) - the only university to have one I believe - and is a highly respected engineering research university, so that likely played a part in Albany getting this. I find it surprising that Intel didn't help fund the establishment of a world class research university in Portland, or an OSU or OU satellite focused on engineering.
- osnium123 2y agoThere was something called the Oregon Graduate Institute that the founders of Tektronix helped establish. The issue with Intel is that their management is not in Oregon for the most part so they are not invested in the same way as Phil Knight (Nike’s founder) is. Intel has also historically relied on importing talent from outside Oregon so the lack of a world class research university in the Portland metro area has not hurt Intel too much. I am sure that they regret not having such an institution now though.
- nxobject 2y ago> the lack of a world class research university in the Portland metro area has not hurt Intel too much Hey, hey, OHSU exists y'know! ;)
- insane_dreamer 2y agoAbsolutely! Great medical school. I was thinking engineering - should have specified that.
- oldpersonintx 2y ago[dead]