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A company named for this city developed a CUDA (“COO-duh”) Fortran compiler for its PGI Compilers and Tools, which was later bought by Nvidia and renamed the HPC SDK. A large collaborative mural was started by Emma Berger on a boarded-up Apple Store in this city, which Apple later preserved and donated. Since 2012, the Classic Tetris World Championship has taken place at the annual (15[1])Retro Gaming Expo held in this city. In the 1940s, Electro Scientific Industries and Tektronix were founded in this city, and are now considered part of its so-called “Silicon (*) Forest”. Though Intel is headquartered in Santa Clara, its largest concentration of employees (-5[1])and R&D facilities are in (10[1])Hillsboro, part of (10[1])this city’s metropolitan area. Nike’s world headquarters are in another suburb of this city, Beaverton. For 10 points, name this stereotypically hipster city, the largest in Oregon. ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Portland, Oregon [accept Hillsboro or Beaverton before mentioned] (The second sentence describes the George Floyd mural that was painted during the Portland protests.)
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