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June 26, 2025: Twenty-three recipients representing twenty projects of the first round of FABrIC Challenge Projects were announced today. Leveraging $35.6M in total investment, the $13.4M in funding provided by Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED), calls on the semiconductor industry to innovate in product and process development to enhance the resilience of the supply chain for Canadian industry, from healthcare to the automotive sector. Managed by CMC Microsystems, FABrIC is a five-year, $223 million initiative to secure Canada’s future in semiconductors.

May 20, 2025: CMC Microsystems President and CEO Gordon Harling will be one of the keynote speakers at the InnoVex Forum in Taiwan in May of this year. Held concurrently with the COMPUTEX ICT procurement tradeshow, InnoVEX is a unique startup exhibition where firms at any stage of development can connect with partners to grow their business.

April 28, 2025: CMC Microsystems will participate in a mission with 14 companies from the United Kingdom visiting Canada for the week of April 28, 2025.

April 22, 2025: For the first time in its history, CMC Microsystems was part of the Team Canada delegation at HANNOVER MESSE 2025, the world’s premier industrial trade fair, which took place from March 31 to April 4 in Hannover, Germany, and drew over 150,000 attendees from across the globe. CMC along with several other organizations represented Canada’s semiconductor ecosystem. This included many members of FABrIC, an initiative to accelerate made-in-Canada IoT products and semiconductor fabrication processes made possible through a  $120M investment by the Government of Canada.

February 24, 2025: FABrIC, a five-year project to secure Canada’s future in semiconductors managed by CMC Microsystems, has formed a strategic partnership with SECTR, Canada’s Semiconductor Ecosystem & Center for Talent & Research. Under this partnership, FABrIC and SECTR will develop and deliver training programs to address the talent gap in semiconductor design and development.

January 29, 2025: CMC Microsystems, Canada’s leading hardware technology facilitator and accelerator, is pleased to welcome Embedded Enterprise Systems, ISTOIC Semiconductor, and Silicon Arts Studio to CMC.

January 22, 2024: FABrIC, a five-year, project to secure Canada’s future in semiconductors, is proud to announce three new members of leadership team.

January 1, 2025: One of the most prominent themes of 2024 was the ongoing momentum in reshoring semiconductor production to Canada.

December 19, 2024: This past year has been a remarkable one for CMC with many significant accomplishments. Next year holds the promise of continued success.

November 22, 2024: CMC Microsystems has wrapped up a successful series of quantum events in Calgary, Alberta. These were part of Innovation Week YYC, week-long celebration of the people, startups, scaleups, and technologies that are defining Calgary’s future.

November 19, 2024: CMC Microsystems and ventureLAB, leading global founder community for hardware technology and enterprise software companies in Canada located in York region, have wrapped up a successful week at electronica 2024, the world’s leading trade fair for the entire spectrum of technologies, products and solutions from the electronics industry. CMC and ventureLAB were members of the Province of Ontario delegation, made possible through close collaboration with the Ontario Trade and Investment Office in Munich, Germany and the Trade Commissioner Service, who provided Ontario delegates with valuable connections to potential clients and partners in the European Union. The mission aims to foster and establish key relationships in Germany and Europe, positioning ventureLAB as the premier destination for founders and investors in hardtech sectors, and CMC as a main conduit to highlight Canadian semiconductor capabilities and capacity to attract international investment and Highly Qualified Personnel (HQP) to Canada.

November 18, 2024: CMC Microsystems is proud to announce the winners of TEXPO 2024. Established by CMC Microsystems, TEXPO offers graduate students in Canadian universities a unique opportunity to demonstrate their novel applications of micro-nano technologies to industry representatives and academic peers. TEXPO 2024 was held virtually.

November 15, 2024: CMC Microsystems, Canada’s leading hardware accelerator and facilitator, is pleased to welcome Lisa Lambert to our Board of Directors. Lisa has dedicated her career to driving innovation at the crossroads of science, technology, and society. She will play a vital role in setting CMC’s strategic direction over the course of her three-year mandate.

Ottawa, ON | October 21, 2024: CMC Microsystems, Canada’s leading hardware accelerator and facilitator, is pleased to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Canada’s Semiconductor Council (CSC), a national semiconductor industry organization.

October 21, 2024: CMC Microsystems, Canada’s leading hardware technology facilitator and accelerator, is proud to announce two nominations to its senior leadership team. Lynn McNeil has been named Vice-President, FABrIC, and Shirley Kwakkenbos has been named Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer.

October 10, 2024: Startups, early-stage firms, industry representatives, academics, and government representatives met in Markham, Ontario October 9 and 10 for the 2024 Canadian Semiconductor Symposium. The second edition of this annual event featured highly interactive and engaging sessions identifying significant growth opportunities for the industry, success stochries, advice, and solutions to overcome challenges facing the semiconductor ecosystem.

August 23, 2024: CMC Microsystems, Canada’s leading hardware accelerator and facilitator, and McMaster University are partnering to advance research and develop new processes and training programs in the field of semiconductors and photonics.

July 10, 2024: CMC Microsystems, Canada’s leading hardware technology facilitator and accelerator, and Pasqal, a global leader in neutral atoms quantum computing, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to advance Canada’s quantum ecosystem. Under the partnership agreement, Pasqal will provide its proprietary Quantum Discovery Platform to CMC’s team of quantum scientists. In turn, CMC will provide use cases, development and training.

FABrIC launched by CMC Microsystems thanks to strategic investment by the Government of Canada


July 4, 2024: CMC Microsystems, and Innovation, Science, and Economic Development Canada (ISED) today announced the launch of FABrIC, an initiative that secures Canada’s future in semiconductors and advanced manufacturing. FABrIC is made possible thanks to an investment of $120M over five years from ISED’s Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF), and is a crucial step to grow Canada’s semiconductor industry, develop new Made-in-Canada semiconductor-based IoT products, manufacturing options, and create a resilient and sustainable semiconductor ecosystem in Canada.

June 5, 2024: CMC Microsystems, Canada’s leading hardware technology facilitator and accelerator, is pleased to welcome Agrobotic, and SQK to CMC.

May 30, 2024: CMC President and CEO Gordon Harling had the honour of representing Canada at the 27th annual World Micromachine Summit, which was held May 26-29, 2024 in Gold Coast, Australia.

​​​April 15, 2024: CMC Microsystems, Canada’s leading hardware technology facilitator and accelerator, and AIoT Canada, the Canadian technology cluster dedicated to AI + IoT, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to advance Canada’s AI, IoT, and semiconductor advanced technology ecosystem. The MoU was signed during AIoT Canada’s Spring Summit in Ottawa, in the presence

Avinash Persaud and Gordon Harling  Semiconductors are still in the spotlight  The importance of semiconductors became clear during the COVID-19 pandemic, when snarled global supply chains exposed weaknesses in the world’s overreliance on one part of the world for manufacturing of such critical components. Increasing tension between the United States and China over Taiwan add

April 5, 2024: CMC Microsystems, a not-for-profit organization that accelerates research and innovation in advanced technologies in Canada, and ventureLAB, leading global founder community for hardware technology and enterprise software companies in Canada located in York region, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to formalize their relationship and advance Canada’s advanced technology ecosystem. The ceremony was held at the ventureLAB Innovation Centre in Markham, ON, with industry leaders, entrepreneurs, researchers, and representatives of the Governments of Canada, Ontario, and Markham including Tony Van Bynen, Member of Parliament for Newmarket—Aurora.

Dr. Thomas Jones has been awarded the 2023 Douglas R. Colton Medal for Research Excellence.
February 13, 2024 – Dr. Thomas Jones, founder, director, and CEO of Jones Microwave Inc., Senior Research Associate at Purdue University, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Alberta, has been awarded the 2023 Douglas R. Colton Medal for Research Excellence – CMC’s most prestigious award which recognizes excellence in research leading to new understanding, novel developments and/or applications in microsystems and nanotechnology in Canada.

February 6, 2024 – SemiQon from Finland, and Canada’s CMC Microsystems announce a collaboration agreement to advance silicon-based quantum processor technology. Under the terms of the agreement, SemiQon will supply CMC with prototypes of its semiconductor-based quantum processor chips for research purposes. CMC scientists will collaborate with SemiQon to accelerate the development of processors for more powerful quantum computers suitable for the next generation of quantum computing – the million-qubit era.

January 22, 2024: CMC Microsystems, Canada’s leading hardware technology facilitator and accelerator, is pleased to welcome Cégep de Sherbrooke and RRC Polytech to CMC.

Ottawa, November 24, 2023: Startups, academics, industry veterans, and government policy analysts met in Ottawa November 23 and 24 at the 2023 Canadian Semiconductor Symposium. The highly interactive sessions identified significant growth opportunities for the industry, some concerns, and sage advice from players across the Canadian semiconductor ecosystem including founder and Chairman of Wesley Clover International, Sir Terrence Matthews.

Eric Flaim, May Siksik and Jeff F. Young bring extensive experience to CMC Microsystems’ Board of Directors

MONTREAL, QC – Oct. 15, 2023: CMC Microsystems, a leading organization accelerating research and innovation in Canada, is pleased to welcome Dr. Eric Flaim, Dr. May Siksik, and Dr. Jeff F. Young to our Board of Directors. They bring a wealth of experience from in academic research, as well as valuable governance and administrative experience. They will play a vital role in setting CMC’s strategic direction over the course of their three-year mandates.

September 29, 2023: CMC Microsystems is proud to announce the winners of TEXPO 2023. Established by CMC Microsystems, TEXPO offers graduate students in Canada’s National Design Network® (CNDN) a unique opportunity to demonstrate their novel applications of micro-nano technologies to industry representatives and academic peers. TEXPO 2023 was held virtually.  Students competed for a total

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July 27, 2023: The Government of Canada placed a big bet on green technologies and clean power in Budget 2023. “Green technology” is a broad definition. We all know what being green and clean looks like, but which innovations get us there. The backbone of any technology that will get us to net zero is not what you might think. 

July 4, 2023: CMC Microsystems, Canada’s leading hardware technology facilitator, received an investment of $171,292 to fund a training initiative that is unique in the world: Build Your Own Superconducting Quantum Device workshop. This financial support is from the NovaScience program, an initiative of the Ministère de l’Économie, de l’Innovation et de l’Énergie (MEIE). NovaScience financially supports the development of the next generation of scientists in Québec by emphasizing and promoting scientific culture, as well as research and development (R&D) as well as business. It also allows new graduates to gain professional experience in research and development.

June 19, 2023 : CMC is proud to be a founding member of SILICAN, a new coalition of industry advocates and organizations who want to build a stronger Canadian semiconductor economy.

CMC’s foundry partners fabricate over 480 designs

May 10, 2023: In a global environment of ongoing tumultuous shortage of semiconductor chips and significant government investments in advanced technology initiatives, CMC logged another stellar year of prototyping, with over 480 chip designs manufactured. That number is expected to grow by at least ten percent in 2023. 

April 28, 2023: CMC Microsystems, Canada’s leading hardware technology facilitator, and Untether AI^®, the leader in energy-centric AI inference for acceleration, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to collaborate on providing Untether AI’s acceleration solutions to CMC customers and partners.

National supply chain strategy with strategic trade corridor investments announced in Budget 2023 are encouraging

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President Biden’s visit to Ottawa was important for Canada, and our semiconductor industry in particular. This is part of a larger semiconductor manufacturing trade agreement, or “corridor” which is great news for Canadian innovation and our national interests.

Amy Karam and Vanessa Little bring extensive experience to CMC Microsystems’ Board of Directors

MONTREAL, QC – March 27, 2023: CMC Microsystems, a leading organization accelerating research and innovation in Canada, is pleased to welcome Amy Karam and Vanessa Little to our Board of Directors. They bring a wealth of experience from industry, research, as well as invaluable governance experience. They will play a vital role in setting CMC’s strategic direction over the course of their three-year mandates.

January 11, 2023: CMC Microsystems, Canada’s leading hardware technology facilitator and accelerator, and the University of Sydney (Australia), on behalf of The Semiconductor Service Bureau (S3B), have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to promote future collaboration and initiatives to support the semiconductor industry in Canada and Australia.

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If you’ve shopped for a new car in the last two years, you’re aware of the shortage of semiconductors.  Manufacture and delivery of vehicles of all kinds has been severely impacted by the shortage of these critical components.  

December 19, 2022: As 2022 comes to a close, I would like to thank our community of clients, suppliers, staff, and funders for continued support.

Over 400 chip designs facilitated last year including fabrication of 7 superconducting designs – a world first via a multi-project wafer service. 

November 30, 2022: A semiconductor chip design for sensing pressure inside the human kidney, a chip that that harvests energy from vibrations and turns them into useful electric charges, a chip that is stretchable and self-healable designed as a wearable electronic device; these are just a few examples of over 400 microchip designs manufactured in the last year via CMC Microsystems.