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Lattice Semiconductor Corporation is an American semiconductor company specializing in the design and manufacturing of low power field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). Headquartered in the Silicon Forest area of Hillsboro,Oregon,the company also has operations in San Jose,Calif.,Shanghai,Manila,Penang,and Singapore. Lattice Semiconductor has more than 1000 employees and an annual revenue of more than $660 million as of 2022. The company was founded in 1983 and went public in 1989. It is traded on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the symbol LSCC.
Hillsboro Airport,also known as Portland–Hillsboro Airport,is a corporate,general aviation and flight-training airport serving the city of Hillsboro,in Washington County,Oregon,United States as well as a large amount of private/charter and general aviation traffic into and out of the greater Portland area. It is one of three airports in the Portland,Oregon,metropolitan area owned and operated by the Port of Portland. Established in 1928,it is Oregon's second busiest airport at over 200,000 operations annually. HIO covers 900 acres and has three runways.
Tuality Healthcare is a non-profit,community health care organization based in Hillsboro,Oregon,United States. Founded in 1918,the organization operates a medical center in Washington County,Oregon,and has been selected on several occasions as one of Oregon’s 100 Best Companies to Work For by Oregon Business magazine.
Bruce Starr is an American politician and businessman in Oregon. A Republican,he served two terms in the Oregon House of Representatives before winning election to the Oregon State Senate in 2002. There he joined his father Senator Charles Starr and they became the first father-son team to serve at the same time in Oregon's Senate. Bruce had previously been a member of the Hillsboro City Council,and was re-elected to the Senate in 2006 and 2010,but lost a bid in 2012 to be the Oregon Labor Commissioner.
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Kaiser Westside Medical Center is a hospital in the Tanasbourne neighborhood in Hillsboro in the U.S. state of Oregon. Opened in August 2013 with 126 hospital beds,the Kaiser Permanente facility is planned to later expand to 174 beds. It was designed by Ellerbe Becket Architects and Petersen Kolberg &Associates Architects/Planners. The $220 million hospital includes Kaiser's Sunset Medical Office that opened in 1987 on the west side of the Portland metropolitan area.
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The Hillsboro Hops are a Minor League Baseball team in the northwest United States,located in Hillsboro,Oregon,a city in the Portland metropolitan area. The Hops are members of the Northwest League and are the High-A affiliate of the Arizona Diamondbacks. They play their home games at Hillsboro Ballpark,which opened in 2013.
The Forest Grove Leader was a weekly community newspaper in Forest Grove in the U.S. state of Oregon. Started in 2012,it was published by the Oregonian Publishing Company,which also published The Hillsboro Argus newspaper and continues to publish The Oregonian. The free publication competed with the News-Times in the city,a suburb of the Portland metropolitan area. In January 2016,it was combined with two other newspapers to form the Washington County Argus,but the Argus ceased publication only 14 months later,in March 2017.
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Tonkon Torp LLP is an American law firm based in Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon. Established in 1974,the limited liability partnership has 78 attorneys. As of 2010,it was the third largest law firm in Portland when it had 86 attorneys.
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