Marketplace: Hot iPhone Connected to County
By JULIA ANDERSON
Apple’s iPhone, the hot-selling multi-tasking device that integrates a phone, music player and camera into one Web-surfing gizmo has Clark County connections.
A lot of people this month couldn’t wait to get their hands on an iPhone so they could tear one apart and find out who made what components inside.
Turns out that chipmaker Intel Corp. is supplying a memory chip called NOR flash to the iPhone. Intel, of course, is Oregon’s largest employer with about 15,000 workers in and around its Hillsboro, Ore., facility. Who supplies Intel with silicon wafers for chipmaking? Vancouver’s SEH America Inc.
Texas Instruments is supplying the iPhone power management chip. Texas Instruments is another SEH customer.
And Linear Technology, which operates a chip plant in east Vancouver, is identified as the maker of the iPhone battery charger chip, according to an Associated Press story. Apple projects sales of 10 million units by 2008.
Beware of drop-in pavers
The state Attorney General’s Office is warning Washington homeowners to beware of cons claiming to repair your driveway. Scammers have been reported in communities across the state, most recently in the Vancouver and Tacoma areas. Both the AG’s office and the state Department of Labor and Industries have received recent complaints. Cons typically approach a homeowner or business and offer to repave a driveway or parking lot. They offer a great low price and claim they have just enough asphalt left over from another job nearby. The representatives are usually polite and persuasive and drive nice work vehicles. The quality of the material used and its application are inferior, the AG’s office warns. By the time you realize that you have a problem, the paving crew is long gone.
Kazoodles is featured
Kazoodles, the downtown Vancouver “kid-powered” toy store, received feature coverage in “edplay,” the national magazine for speciality toy, game, gift and museum stores. Mary and Bob Sisson opened Kazoodles in December 2005 at 575 W. Eighth St. The Sissons told the magazine that as part of their research before opening the store, they visited 30 toy stores around the nation looking for ideas.
Getting a Greenlight
The four-county economic development corporation formed earlier this year to foster regionwide growth has a new name – Greenlight Greater Portland. The name is intended to let interested companies know that this region is open for business and ready to “greenlight” their projects, said Mark Ganz, president and CEO. Why have an overarching group? To compete in a global market it is imperative to position the greater Portland area as a unique and desirable place in which to do business, Ganz said.
Angelo project
The Angelo Co. is moving ahead with the permitting process for its five-story, 62,800-square-foot office building at 400 E. Mill Plain Blvd., across from the downtown Burgerville.
Julia Anderson is The Columbian’s business editor. Reach her at 360-759-8071, or
julia.anderson@columbian.com
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