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Message from the President and CEO, Gordon Harling

January 28, 2022: Dear CMC community, I hope your 2022 is off to a healthy start. Thanks to you, CMC is on track for a new year of continued growth. I’d like to share some of our ambitions for the upcoming year, starting with an emphasis on our core competencies – what we do best for innovation in Canada.

CMC is: 

TECHNOLOGY DIFFUSER  

  • Premier partner in any Canadian project concerning advanced technologies 
  • First choice for distribution/aggregation of any technology project with national impact 
  • a resource for the creation of national/ international research networks 

OPEN-SOURCE CHAMPION 

  • an engine of creation of open-source intellectual property (IP)  
  • a channel for the dissemination of open-source IP 

EXPERTS  

  • A resource for Canadian expertise in the technologies we serve: microelectronics, photonics, MEMS, quantum, and nanomaterials 
  • A conduit for creating synergies in advanced technology projects 

Growth by the numbers 

  • In the year ended March 2022 CMC did over 15M$ in business 
  • In the year ending March 2023 CMC will do over 16.5M$ in business 

CMC is growing both in CNDN subscribers and in industrial services: 

  • We are growing our CNDN subscriber base by 10% per year 
  • We are adding 1M$ per year to our FAB business starting from 4.5M$ in 2021/22 
  • We have over 15 start-ups in our VIE incubator program 
  • We have NDAs in place with over 50 US universities for CAD and FAB services 
  • We have created open-source designs for  
    • 32b and 64b RISC-V processors 
    • Electronic Sensor Platform for biochemical assays 
    • Photonics toolkit device 
    • Silicon Interposers 
  • We are promoting CMC Basecamp training for 
    • Silicon Photonics (SiEPIC Active and Passive courses) 
    • Superconducting Circuits 
    • RF Design and many others… 
  • We have over 12 active projects in quantum computing on systems from IBM, Xanadu, and others 

We have a very ambitious vision for the year ahead. If you would like to discuss your vision, please don’t hesitate to reach me directly, harling@cmc.ca

Best regards, 
Gordon Harling 
President and CEO 
CMC Microsystems 

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