Timber was Oregon’s economic driver in 1974 when a computer chip company by the name of Intel started building facilities in Aloha and Hillsboro.
Then, as the logging industry started fleeing the state in the 1980s and ‘90s, officials hoped technology companies like Intel would emerge as Oregon’s next financial driver.
And it largely has. But mass layoffs at Intel’s Hillsboro campus this month are raising questions about the semiconductor industry’s dominance in Oregon…