A company vital in designing and building equipment for the world’s largest computer chip firms broke ground on a $620 million research and development lab in Tualatin Wednesday.
Overall, Lam Research will spend $1.5 billion on major research and development laboratories in Washington County over the next decade and half.
It’s part of a global expansion of the semiconductor equipment firm’s network of labs. Lam Research plans to pump $3 billion into operations in the U.S., as well as in Asia and Europe…