Intel sputters, jeopardizing Oregon’s financial engine

Few Oregonians ever see the high-tech work that drives the state’s economic motor.

It takes place out of sight and mostly in secret, under fluorescent lights in Intel’s closely guarded Hillsboro cleanrooms. Technicians cloaked from head to toe in white bunny suits tend to enormous machines, manufacturing the microscopic circuitry that runs PCs and the internet itself.