Best Semiconductors Companies in Oregon, United States
The 90 best Semiconductors companies in Oregon, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Lattice Semiconductor.
Our analysis of 69 Semiconductors companies
$22.3b in tracked funding; 88% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Semiconductors companies in Oregon
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founded | Founder | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lattice Semiconductor Manufacturer of low power field programmable gate arrays and software | $260M | 319 mo ago | 1,156 1,156 → 1,538 (+33%) | 1983 | — | 1,092 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | 3 launchs · 2 awards |
| 2 | Inpria Provider of photoresists and other thin films | $69M | 76 mo ago | 39 | 2007 | — | 464 patents EUV lithography photoresists using organotin/organometallic chemistries for patterning | — |
| 3 | Mobilian Provider of ICs for Wi-Fi-based communication | $60M | 293 mo ago | 120 | 1999 | Manpreet Khaira Founder & CEO | 14 patents Multi‑protocol wireless transceivers with coordinated interference mitigation and QoS management | — |
| 4 | Ambric Provider of software-programmable IC platforms | $60M | 215 mo ago | 30 | 2003 | — | 29 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | — |
| 5 | Avnera Designing Analog System on Chip(ASoc) for audio products. | $60M | 160 mo ago | 87 | 2004 | — | 317 patents Advanced audio signal processing and detection technologies for headphones and earbuds | — |
| 6 | NexPlanar Produces Chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) pad | $42M | 155 mo ago | 100 | 2003 | James LaCasse Ex-CEO & President | 182 patents Advanced CMP polishing pads and fabrication methods for semiconductor wafer planarization. | — |
| 7 | Translarity Low cost and high performance full semiconductor wafer testing | $38M | 142 mo ago | 31 | 1999 | Laura Oliphant CEO | 54 patents Precision probe‑card and wafer‑testing hardware for semiconductor test equipment | — |
| 8 | Advanced Inquiry Systems Manufacturer of wafer data sensing systems for semiconductor memory manufacturing | $29M | 146 mo ago | 31 | 2002 | Morgan Johnson Founder | — | — |
| 9 | Liquid Wire Manufacturer of stretchable interconnects, strain sensors, and area sensing solutions | $25M | 17 mo ago | 38 | 2016 | Mark Ronay Founder & CEO | 166 patents Stretchable electronics and deformable sensor systems for wearable health monitoring | — |
| 10 | Enuclia Fabless semiconductor company developing video technology for flat-panel displays | $19M | 245 mo ago | — | 2003 | — | — | — |
| 11 | ChEmpower Developer of chemistry-empowered functional pads for chip planarization in semiconductor manufacturing | $19M | 15 mo ago | 5 | 2021 | S Babu Co-Founder | 34 patents Advanced chemical-mechanical planarization pads, processes, and metal recovery for semiconductor fabrication | 1 job opening |
| 12 | Fresco Logic USB and PCI Express connectivity solutions | $18M | 184 mo ago | 9 | 2008 | — | — | — |
| 13 | Cascade Microtech Developer of advanced wafer probing solutions | $13M | 316 mo ago | 500 | 1983 | — | 431 patents Wafer-level probe and contact testing systems for semiconductor device characterization. | — |
| 14 | Neofocal Chipsets for LED light control | $12M | 134 mo ago | 2 | 2008 | — | — | — |
| 15 | Indice Semiconductor Free MP3 & MP4 downloads, unlimited music & videos online | $12M | 113 mo ago | 11 | 2008 | Aaron Brown Co Founder | — | — |
| 16 | Fjscaler Developer of high-speed communication components and integrated optical solutions | $8M | 6 mo ago | — | 2022 | Jan Filip CEO | — | 2 job openings |
| 17 | TriQuint Innovative RF and Power Solutions connecting, protecting, and powering the planet | $7M | 154 mo ago | 3,109 | 1985 | — | 9 patents RF microwave power combiners/splitters and surface acoustic wave (SAW) filter/duplexer technology. | — |
| 18 | Planar Systems Manufacturer of multi-category displays | $7M | 192 mo ago | 331 331 → 523 (+58%) | 1983 | — | — | 1 award |
| 19 | Clarity Visual Manufacturer of windows, doors, and sun protection systems | $6M | 309 mo ago | 1 | 1995 | — | 5 patents Digital projection-based signage and automated advertising content distribution systems | — |
| 20 | Pacific Light Tech Provides engineered nano materials for high-efficiency solid-state lighting | $5M | 138 mo ago | 12 | 2011 | — | — | — |
| 21 | ESI Provider of laser processing systems for flex and rigid PCBs and MLCCs. | $5M | 118 mo ago | 1,294 | 1944 | Douglas Strain Founder | — | 2 launchs |
| 22 | Nano3D Systems Provider of electro-chemical for fabrication & metallization | $2M | 135 mo ago | — | 2008 | Val Dubin Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 23 | Amorphyx Provides display technology solutions based on the amorphous metal-nonlinear resistor (AMNR) | $1M | 60 mo ago | 14 | 2012 | — | 65 patents Amorphous metal thin‑film transistors and diode‑backplane displays with low‑roughness gate structures | — |
| 24 | SupraSensor Sensors for molecular sensing of nitrogen levels in Soil | $1M | 132 mo ago | 5 | 2012 | August Sick Co-Founder | 11 patents In-situ nitrate and ion concentration sensing using molecular receptor chemFET devices. | — |
| 25 | Voxtel Manufacturer of LIDAR-based electro-optical imaging products | $950K | 201 mo ago | 45 | 2002 | — | 55 patents High‑performance optoelectronic imaging and solid‑state laser detection technologies | — |
| 26 | Mentor Graphics Developer of software tools for electronic design automation | $267K | 68 mo ago | 375 | 1981 | — | 1,503 patents Electronic design automation tools for semiconductor test pattern generation and scan diagnostics | — |
| 27 | Lumencor Manufacturer of solid-state light sources for microscopy and other applications | $197K | 214 mo ago | — | 2006 | Claudia Jaffe Co-Founder & CEO & President | 103 patents Advanced fluorescence illumination and confocal microscopy instrumentation for bioanalysis | — |
Top 12 Semiconductors companies in Oregon
#1
Series A · Beaverton, Oregon · founded 2022$7.5Mraised▾
Developer of high-speed communication components and integrated optical solutions. The company provides DSP-based optical coherent technology ranging from 100G up to 800G. It offers high-frequency, low-power linear transimpedance amplifiers and linear drivers for SiPh and InP Mach-Zender modulators. Also available is DSP-free optical direct detect technology, along with highly integrated, low-power NRZ/PAM4 digitally assisted transceiver technology featuring calibration and self-test capabilities, suitable for short-reach optical interconnects. The company also develops analog coherent optical technology using continuous analog signal processing for QPSK and 16QAM optical coherent signal reception.
- Dec 2025Series A$7.5M
#2
Series A · Portland, Oregon · founded 2021 · 5 employees$18.7Mraised▾
Developer of chemistry-empowered functional pads for chip planarization in semiconductor manufacturing. It offers abrasive-free planarization solutions resulting in low defects and high chip yields. Its proprietary chemistry-empowered, functional pad replaces both pad and slurry, providing a solution to slurry management and wastewater disposal. The smart manufacturing process incorporates in-situ grooving to produce high-quality pads for advanced semiconductor manufacturing, with precisely tunable and easily scalable production.
- Feb 2025Series A$18.7M
#3
Series B · Portland, Oregon · founded 2016 · 38 employees$25Mraised▾
Manufacturer of stretchable interconnects, strain sensors, and area sensing solutions. The company provides deformable electronics that maintain electrical performance while stretching, twisting, and flexing. Its Metal Gel technology enables the creation of interconnects and sensors for autonomous systems requiring durability, compact size, and integration. The company offers evaluation kits for assessing the behavior of its products under stress. It provides connection solutions like copper flex, flex polyimide boards, and ZIF connectors.
#4
Public · Portland, Oregon · founded 1983 · 1156 employees$260Mraised▾
Manufacturer of low power field programmable gate arrays and software. The company provides solutions for industrial, automotive, communications, and consumer applications. Its offerings include various FPGA families, software tools for design and development, and pre-designed solution stacks. These stacks cater to areas like factory automation, embedded vision, and edge artificial intelligence.
- Nov 1999Post IPO$260M
#5
Acquired · Corvallis, Oregon · founded 2007 · 39 employees$68.8Mraised▾
Inpria Corporation is a pioneer in extending semiconductor lithography with inorganic photoresists for patterning. Its patented photo-condensed molecular oxides offer users the unique ability to deposit directly from solution- atomically smooth, intrinsically dense, and directly photopatternable metal oxide films, enabling advanced performance with simplified processing. The company spun out of Oregon State University research and has the ability to make the material at its Corvallis Lab.
- Feb 2020Series C$31M
- Jul 2017Series B$23.5M
- Mar 2016Series A—
- Jun 2014Series A$5.4M
#6
Acquired · Beaverton, Oregon · founded 2004 · 87 employees$59.7Mraised▾
Avnera is a fabless semiconductor company making integrated application targeted ASoCs for consumer audio and voice applications. Avnera's ASoC are designed to accelerate time to market by enabling very high level of system integration thus reducing product development time. Avnera IC products target applications in PC accessory audio, iPod accessory audio, home theater, and consumer & enterprise voice. Avnera’s list of customers includes names such as Logitech, Creative, Rocketfish, Panasonic, iHome, Vizio, Sanyo, Onkyo, Acoustic Research, Audioengine, Polycom, et al.
- Feb 2013Series D$3.7M
- Jan 2012Series D$11M
- Nov 2009Series C$8.1M
- May 2009Series C$2.7M
#7
Acquired · Beaverton, Oregon · founded 2003 · 30 employees$60Mraised▾
Provider of software-programmable IC platforms. It develops software-programmable interface circuits based on massively parallel processor array architecture. It offers its products for use in media processing and medical imaging markets. It develops a programmable IC platform that will help electronics companies accelerate the time to market their products economically.
- Jul 2008Series B$20.9M
- Jan 2007Series A$27.6M
- Sep 2004Series A$10.4M
- May 2004Seed$1.1M
#8
Series C · Hillsboro, Oregon · founded 1999 · 31 employees$37.7Mraised▾
AISI has developed a proprietary silicon based platform that will enable lower cost testing of memory devices. The technology is unique in the test world as it is able to operate at very high speeds improving tester utilization through parallelism and it can scale both in pin density and wafer size. The company is now known as Translarity.
- Jul 2014Series C$5.3M
- Apr 2014Series C$750K
- Jan 2014Series C$500K
- Nov 2013Series C$300K
#9
Acqui-Hired · Hillsboro, Oregon · founded 1999 · 120 employees$60Mraised▾
Provider of ICs for Wi-Fi-based communication. It develops chips, software, and reference designs for wireless radios. It also develops analog and digital integrated circuits and embedded software for wireless data communications. Its products include a two-chip wireless personal area networking and wireless local area networking solution that integrates Bluetooth and Wi-Fi radios on a single analogue chip and performs various baseband processing on a single digital chip.
- Jan 2002Series C$8M
- Apr 2001Series C$35M
#10
Series C · Hillsboro, Oregon · founded 2002 · 31 employees$29Mraised▾
AISI manufactures wafer data sensing systems for semiconductor memory manufacturing. It has developed a proprietary silicon-based platform that enables lower cost testing of memory devices. It is backed by multiple investors including OVP Venture Partners, TL Ventures, Intel Capital, Applied Ventures, KT Ventures, and Northwest Technology Ventures.
- Apr 2014Series C$750K
- Feb 2012Series C$697.9K
- Jul 2010Series C$10M
- Aug 2009Series B$11M
#11
Acquired · Hillsboro, Oregon · founded 2003 · 100 employees$41.6Mraised▾
Manufacturer of CMP (chemical mechanical planarization) pads using proprietary nano-domain technology for the production of semiconductors and hard drives. The company develops pads used to plane the surface of a semiconductor wafer before laying down the next layer of electrical circuits.
#12
Acquired · Beaverton, Oregon · founded 2008 · 9 employees$17.5Mraised▾
Fresco Logic, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company, provides SuperSpeed universal serial bus (USB) 3.0 and PCI Express connectivity solutions for consumer electronics, personal computing, storage, and mobile devices. It also provides USB 3.0 host controllers and extensible host controller interface products.
- Jan 2011Series B$6M
- Jan 2010Series B$8M
- Jan 2009Series A$3.5M
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What Oregon researches in semiconductors
Oregon State University and peers lead moderately optimistic semiconductor research (mean stance 0.52) focused on photonics, microwave engineering, and nanomaterials, with breakthroughs dominating over concerns.
- Oregon State University26
- Oregon Institute of Technology2
- University of Oregon1
- Oregon Medical Research Center1
- Oregon Health & Science University1