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For sure. But he was a little gassed on that last drive

ACM opened a sales and service office in Oregon two years ago, near Intel's major research fab.

Also: Intel has laid off 59 more workers in the Bay Area, according to new filings in California. Most of those cuts are at the HQ in Santa Clara.

It proves there *is* a market for this!

I was thinking it was perhaps some long-running inside joke (that I wasn't insidery enough to get.)

Both see major economic issues facing the state. But by and large, they're not the same ones.

(Except for taxes, which the Oregon Business Plan casts much more narrowly)

...with how Eric Fruits of the Cascade Policy Institute sees things:

oregonbusinessreport.com/2025/12/econ...

I’ll send this to our dig ops folks. I’m not running into anything like that. Just a static furniture ad

My guess is it's...
1) Apple's desire for a second source (other than TSMC) for its chips
2) Years of work by Intel to demonstrate it can be a credible foundry
3) Tim Cook playing to political moment (tariff uncertainty could certainly be a factor.)

Very interesting!