Oregon's gross state product: $132.66 billion (2006)
Silicon Forest is a nickname for the cluster of high-tech companies located in the Portland metropolitan area in the U.S. states of Oregon and Southwest Washington, and most frequently refers to the industrial corridor between Beaverton and Hillsboro in northwest Oregon.
CurrentAmbric (acquired by Nethra Imaging in April 2009)
ARRIS (via acquisition of C-COR)
Cascade Microtech
ClearEdge Power<6>
Consumer Cellular<7>
Digimarc<7>
Electro Scientific Industries
Elemental
EthicsPoint<8>
Extensis
EPSON<9>
FEI Company
FLIR Systems
GemStone Systems
Genentech<10>
Hewlett-Packard
IBM (by acquisition of Sequent)
InFocus<11>
Intel<12>
Integra Telecom<7>
IP Fabrics
Jive Software
LaCie
Laika<13>
Lattice Semiconductor
Maxim Integrated Products
Mentor Graphics<11>
Merix Corporation
Novellus Systems
ON Semiconductor<14>
Oracle Corporation (by acquisition of Sun Microsystems)
Panic Software
Phoseon Technology<15>
Planar Systems
Puppet Labs<16>
RadiSys Corporation
Sage Software (by the acquisition of Timberline)
Siltronic
SolarWorld
Synopsys
Tektronix
Tripwire
TriQuint Semiconductor
VeriWave <17>
Vernier Software & Technology<7>
WaferTech (TSMC subsidiary)
Webtrends
Xerox<18>
XPLANE<19>
XpressBet
Yahoo!<20>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Forest