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Silicon Florist 🌹 Silicon Forest reboot, “Startups” in Governor’s race 🗳️
Could the AI era reboot Silicon Forest activity…?
Silicon Forest is an admittedly odd moniker. (Says the guy with an even more oddly named blog.) But it’s also fitting. And it’s a reminder that fabs and wafers and lithography and embe...
Week ending Oct 2, 2026 – Oregon startup news
Who knew AI would be the thing that reboots the Silicon Forest? This week: a16z says capital is rotating back to hardware, Portland lands at 53 out of 1,000, and I ran a diff between a governor's debate and my earlier coverage and came up w...
Silicon Florist 🌹 Nike Knights give $1B, Oregon gubernatorial startup stats 🕵️♂️
Uncle Phil has entered the engineering chat
It’s no secret that Oregon State University has long been the premier engineering school for our state. And recent investments from OSU alum and NVIDIA founder Jensen Huang have done a great...
Week ending Sep 25, 2026 – Oregon startup news
Leading the week: Phil and Penny Knight's $1B gift to build a new Knight College of Engineering at the University of Oregon — which, fun fact, walks straight into the territory the state system carved out for Oregon State a century ago, so...
Silicon Florist 🌹 Antfly raises $2M, Pitch Latino 🎤
Serial founder raises $2M for Antfly
If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a million times: Portland’s sweet spot for tech is “engineers building tools for other engineers.” Tektronix, Intel, Airship, AppFog, Cedexis, Elemental, Hydrolix...
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