Bipolar Integrated Technology

Bipolar Integrated Technology was a semiconductor company based in Beaverton, Oregon which sold products implemented with ECL technology. The company was founded in 1983 by former Floating Point Systems, Intel, and Tektronix engineers.

The initial product was a Floating point coprocessor chip set. Later, the company produced the B5000 SPARC ECL microprocessor (never reached production in a Sun Microsystems product, though used by Floating Point Systems) and the R6000 MIPS ECL microprocessor (which did reach production as a MIPS minicomputer). The manufacture of these processors were never really reliable, thus making them prohibitively expensive when compared to competing CMOS products. The company entered the telecommunications market with ATM devices and Ethernet switches. The company was eventually acquired by PMC-Sierra in 1996 for these later communications products.

Companies formerly based in Oregon

Moved out of state	Georgia Pacific Integra Telecom (2014) JELD-WEN (2015) Louisiana Pacific

Acquired by out-of-state entities	Camera World (1997) Cascade Microtech (2016) Fred Meyer Freightliner Harry & David (2014) J. K. Gill LaCrosse Footwear (2012) MathStar (2010) McCormick & Schmick's (2012) Meier & Frank Merix (2010) Oregon Steel Mills Planar Systems (2015) Sawyer's (1966) Sequent Computer Systems StanCorp Financial (2016) Tektronix (2007) U.S. Bancorp West Coast Bank (2012) Willamette Industries (2002)

Defunct or out of business	Consolidated Freightways Emporium (2003) Evergreen International Aviation Floating Point Systems G.I. Joe's (2009) Hollywood Video (2010) Sprouse-Reitz (1994) White Stag Manufacturing

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