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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.

90companies tracked
$777.9Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
24have raised
FLIAR INTELLIGENCE · SEMICONDUCTORS × OREGON

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.

69companies analysed
88%cloud-native stacks
2025funding peak (by rounds)
8unicorns
2016median founding year
297kcombined LinkedIn audience
87%of audience held by top 3
5companies hiring publicly (12 mo)

Ranked: Best Semiconductors companies in Oregon

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundEmployeesFoundedFounderPatents & IP focusRecent signals
1Lattice Semiconductor
Manufacturer of low power field programmable gate arrays and software
$260M319 mo ago1,156
1,156 → 1,538 (+33%)
1983—1,092 patents
Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation
3 launchs · 2 awards
2Inpria
Provider of photoresists and other thin films
$69M76 mo ago392007—464 patents
EUV lithography photoresists using organotin/organometallic chemistries for patterning
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3Mobilian
Provider of ICs for Wi-Fi-based communication
$60M293 mo ago1201999Manpreet Khaira
Founder & CEO
14 patents
Multi‑protocol wireless transceivers with coordinated interference mitigation and QoS management
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4Ambric
Provider of software-programmable IC platforms
$60M215 mo ago302003—29 patents
Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation
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5Avnera
Designing Analog System on Chip(ASoc) for audio products.
$60M160 mo ago872004—317 patents
Advanced audio signal processing and detection technologies for headphones and earbuds
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6NexPlanar
Produces Chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) pad
$42M155 mo ago1002003James LaCasse
Ex-CEO & President
182 patents
Advanced CMP polishing pads and fabrication methods for semiconductor wafer planarization.
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7Translarity
Low cost and high performance full semiconductor wafer testing
$38M142 mo ago311999Laura Oliphant
CEO
54 patents
Precision probe‑card and wafer‑testing hardware for semiconductor test equipment
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8Advanced Inquiry Systems
Manufacturer of wafer data sensing systems for semiconductor memory manufacturing
$29M146 mo ago312002Morgan Johnson
Founder
——
9Liquid Wire
Manufacturer of stretchable interconnects, strain sensors, and area sensing solutions
$25M17 mo ago382016Mark Ronay
Founder & CEO
166 patents
Stretchable electronics and deformable sensor systems for wearable health monitoring
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10Enuclia
Fabless semiconductor company developing video technology for flat-panel displays
$19M245 mo ago—2003———
11ChEmpower
Developer of chemistry-empowered functional pads for chip planarization in semiconductor manufacturing
$19M15 mo ago52021S Babu
Co-Founder
34 patents
Advanced chemical-mechanical planarization pads, processes, and metal recovery for semiconductor fabrication
1 job opening
12Fresco Logic
USB and PCI Express connectivity solutions
$18M184 mo ago92008———
13Cascade Microtech
Developer of advanced wafer probing solutions
$13M316 mo ago5001983—431 patents
Wafer-level probe and contact testing systems for semiconductor device characterization.
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14Neofocal
Chipsets for LED light control
$12M134 mo ago22008———
15Indice Semiconductor
Free MP3 & MP4 downloads, unlimited music & videos online
$12M113 mo ago112008Aaron Brown
Co Founder
——
16Fjscaler
Developer of high-speed communication components and integrated optical solutions
$8M6 mo ago—2022Jan Filip
CEO
—2 job openings
17TriQuint
Innovative RF and Power Solutions connecting, protecting, and powering the planet
$7M154 mo ago3,1091985—9 patents
RF microwave power combiners/splitters and surface acoustic wave (SAW) filter/duplexer technology.
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18Planar Systems
Manufacturer of multi-category displays
$7M192 mo ago331
331 → 523 (+58%)
1983——1 award
19Clarity Visual
Manufacturer of windows, doors, and sun protection systems
$6M309 mo ago11995—5 patents
Digital projection-based signage and automated advertising content distribution systems
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20Pacific Light Tech
Provides engineered nano materials for high-efficiency solid-state lighting
$5M138 mo ago122011———
21ESI
Provider of laser processing systems for flex and rigid PCBs and MLCCs.
$5M118 mo ago1,2941944Douglas Strain
Founder
—2 launchs
22Nano3D Systems
Provider of electro-chemical for fabrication & metallization
$2M135 mo ago—2008Val Dubin
Founder & CEO
——
23Amorphyx
Provides display technology solutions based on the amorphous metal-nonlinear resistor (AMNR)
$1M60 mo ago142012—65 patents
Amorphous metal thin‑film transistors and diode‑backplane displays with low‑roughness gate structures
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24SupraSensor
Sensors for molecular sensing of nitrogen levels in Soil
$1M132 mo ago52012August Sick
Co-Founder
11 patents
In-situ nitrate and ion concentration sensing using molecular receptor chemFET devices.
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25Voxtel
Manufacturer of LIDAR-based electro-optical imaging products
$950K201 mo ago452002—55 patents
High‑performance optoelectronic imaging and solid‑state laser detection technologies
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26Mentor Graphics
Developer of software tools for electronic design automation
$267K68 mo ago3751981—1,503 patents
Electronic design automation tools for semiconductor test pattern generation and scan diagnostics
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27Lumencor
Manufacturer of solid-state light sources for microscopy and other applications
$197K214 mo ago—2006Claudia Jaffe
Co-Founder & CEO & President
103 patents
Advanced fluorescence illumination and confocal microscopy instrumentation for bioanalysis
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Top 12 Semiconductors companies in Oregon

#1
Series A · Beaverton, Oregon · founded 2022
$7.5Mraised
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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.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 1k LinkedIn followers
Hiring: 6 hiring posts in 12 mo (public) · momentum +0 · hiring: Senior Program Manager, Entry-level Accountant
Funding rounds
  • Dec 2025Series A$7.5M
Founders & team
Jan FilipCEO
#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.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 1k LinkedIn followers
Hiring: 1 hiring post in 12 mo (public) · hiring: Senior Quality Manager
Activity: 1 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Feb 2025Series A$18.7M
Founders & team
S BabuCo-FounderSudhanshu MisraChief Executive Officer
Investors
M Ventures, Rhapsody Venture Partners, Intel Capital, Foothill Ventures, Pangaea Ventures, In-Q-Tel
#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.

Founders & team
Mark RonayFounder & CEO
Investors
Deerfield
Tech stack
AosCdnjsCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementFont AwesomeGoogle Analytics
#4
Public · Portland, Oregon · founded 1983 · 1156 employees
$260Mraised
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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.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 102k LinkedIn followers — 34.4% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 3 product launches · 2 awards announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Nov 1999Post IPO$260M
Investors
Lion Point
Tech stack
AkamaiAkamai MpulseBoomerangCdnjsCloudflareCloudflare Bot Management
#5
Acquired · Corvallis, Oregon · founded 2007 · 39 employees
$68.8Mraised
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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.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 2k LinkedIn followers
Hiring: 1 hiring post in 12 mo (public) · hiring: IT Solutions Engineer – Infrastructure & Automation
Funding rounds
  • Feb 2020Series C$31M
  • Jul 2017Series B$23.5M
  • Mar 2016Series A—
  • Jun 2014Series A$5.4M
Investors
JSR Corporation, SK hynix, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, Air Liquide, Samsung Venture Investment, Applied Materials
Tech stack
Apache Http ServerBluehostBootstrapDocusignDropboxGoogle Cloud
#6
Acquired · Beaverton, Oregon · founded 2004 · 87 employees
$59.7Mraised
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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.

Funding rounds
  • Feb 2013Series D$3.7M
  • Jan 2012Series D$11M
  • Nov 2009Series C$8.1M
  • May 2009Series C$2.7M
Investors
Bessemer Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures, Icon Ventures, Altien, DAG Ventures, Intel Capital
Tech stack
AlgoliaWindows ServerIisHstsDigicert
#7
Acquired · Beaverton, Oregon · founded 2003 · 30 employees
$60Mraised
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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.

Funding rounds
  • Jul 2008Series B$20.9M
  • Jan 2007Series A$27.6M
  • Sep 2004Series A$10.4M
  • May 2004Seed$1.1M
Investors
OVP Venture Partners, Fuse Capital, Northwest Technology Ventures, Advanced Equities, Sunrise Ventures
#8
Series C · Hillsboro, Oregon · founded 1999 · 31 employees
$37.7Mraised
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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.

Funding rounds
  • Jul 2014Series C$5.3M
  • Apr 2014Series C$750K
  • Jan 2014Series C$500K
  • Nov 2013Series C$300K
Founders & team
Laura OliphantCEO
Investors
Northwest Technology Ventures, TL Ventures, OVP Venture Partners, Intel Capital, Applied Materials, KT Venture Group
Tech stack
WordpressMysqlPhpPress CustomizrYoutubeEmbedplus
#9
Acqui-Hired · Hillsboro, Oregon · founded 1999 · 120 employees
$60Mraised
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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.

Funding rounds
  • Jan 2002Series C$8M
  • Apr 2001Series C$35M
Founders & team
Manpreet KhairaFounder & CEO
Investors
SVB, Bessemer Venture Partners, SBV Partners, Siparex, Icon Ventures, Dell Technologies
#10
Series C · Hillsboro, Oregon · founded 2002 · 31 employees
$29Mraised
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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.

Funding rounds
  • Apr 2014Series C$750K
  • Feb 2012Series C$697.9K
  • Jul 2010Series C$10M
  • Aug 2009Series B$11M
Founders & team
Morgan JohnsonFounder
Investors
Intel Capital, Applied Materials, KT Venture Group, TL Ventures, OVP Venture Partners, Norwest
#11
Acquired · Hillsboro, Oregon · founded 2003 · 100 employees
$41.6Mraised
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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.

Founders & team
James LaCasseEx-CEO & President
Investors
Horizon, Intel Capital, InterWest Partners, BlueRun Ventures, ATEL Capital Group, Finaventures
#12
Acquired · Beaverton, Oregon · founded 2008 · 9 employees
$17.5Mraised
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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.

Funding rounds
  • Jan 2011Series B$6M
  • Jan 2010Series B$8M
  • Jan 2009Series A$3.5M
Tech stack
PleskApache Http Server

Funding & investor landscape

$777.9Mtotal disclosed funding
28companies funded
91disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Intel Capital6 rounds
ONAMI6 rounds
National Science Foundation4 rounds
Applied Materials3 rounds
Battery Ventures3 rounds
Europa3 rounds
Northwest Technology Ventures3 rounds
OSTI3 rounds
OVP Venture Partners3 rounds
Oregon Venture Fund3 rounds

Notable founders

Jan Filip
CEO · Fjscaler
S Babu
Co-Founder · ChEmpower
Sudhanshu Misra
Chief Executive Officer · ChEmpower
Mark Ronay
Founder & CEO · Liquid Wire
Laura Oliphant
CEO · Translarity
Manpreet Khaira
Founder & CEO · Mobilian
Morgan Johnson
Founder · Advanced Inquiry Systems
James LaCasse
Ex-CEO & President · NexPlanar
Aaron Brown
Co Founder · Indice Semiconductor
James Hamond
Co-Founder & CTO · Indice Semiconductor
Douglas Strain
Founder · ESI
Val Dubin
Founder & CEO · Nano3D Systems
Prism market signals · United States · country-scoped Prism corpus, 933,153 docs

Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage

Share of Semiconductors coverage by sub-theme.

Regulatory-risk over time rising

Funding & growth over time

funding rising · growth rising

RESEARCH FROM Oregon · institutions

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.

31 papersstance +0.5246% breakthrough12% concern
breakthrough · advancement · concern
local research themes
Microwave Engineering and WaveguidesAdditive Manufacturing and 3D Printing TechnologiesPhotonic and Optical DevicesNanomaterials and Printing TechnologiesAnalog and Mixed-Signal Circuit DesignLow-power high-performance VLSI design
top institutions
  • Oregon State University26
  • Oregon Institute of Technology2
  • University of Oregon1
  • Oregon Medical Research Center1
  • Oregon Health & Science University1

Common questions

How many Semiconductors companies are there in Oregon, United States?
Radar tracks 90 indexable Semiconductors companies headquartered in Oregon, United States that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Semiconductors companies in Oregon, United States?
The Semiconductors companies in Oregon, United States on this list have raised a combined $777.9M in disclosed equity funding across 28 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Semiconductors company in Oregon, United States?
Lattice Semiconductor is the highest-funded Semiconductors company in Oregon, United States, with $260M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Semiconductors companies in Oregon, United States are funded?
28 of the 90 Semiconductors companies in Oregon, United States on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Semiconductors unicorns are there in Oregon, United States?
None of the Semiconductors companies in Oregon, United States on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Oregon, United States Semiconductors companies?
The most active investors in Oregon, United States Semiconductors companies on this list include Intel Capital, ONAMI, National Science Foundation, Applied Materials, Battery Ventures.
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