Intel’s potential exit from advanced manufacturing puts its Oregon future in doubt

If Intel stops making advanced chips, the company says the decision "may be effectively irreversible."

Intel has been the driving force in semiconductor technology for nearly all its 57 years, setting the cadence for advances in computer technology that made the PC ubiquitous and the internet transformative.

For the last quarter-century, Intel has done that work at its Ronler Acres research campus in Hillsboro. Its Oregon scientists kept the company on the cutting edge with a succession of breakthroughs in transistor design, semiconductor materials and manufacturing technology.