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.
2024 in Review: Message from CMC President and CEO, Gordon Harling Read More »
The IT Director is a senior leader that has the primary accountability for IT operational infrastructure and enterprise solutions to support and enhance CMC’s operational effectiveness in the delivery of the FABrIC program and other CMC initiatives. This includes ownership of the IT strategy and execution of IT systems, projects, and practices that drive measurable business outcomes. This role also partners with the CSIO to ensure the security and integrity of our data and information systems.
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.
CMC Wraps a Successful Week of Quantum Events in Calgary, AB Read More »
Our newest initiative FABrIC, strengthens our mission to build a vibrant and sustainable Canadian Semiconductor Ecosystem with world-class talent and global impact. Our work is exciting and rewarding. The “CAD-Linux Administrator” position is responsible for managing and maintaining the organization’s CAD software delivery systems and Linux-based infrastructure, ensuring optimal performance, security, and scalability.
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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.
CMC Microsystems and ventureLAB wrap Electronica 2024 Read More »
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.
TEXPO 2024 Winners Announced Read More »
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.
CMC Announces New Appointment to Board of Directors Read More »
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.
CMC is seeking a dynamic and driven Business Development Specialist to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for identifying new business opportunities, building relationships with potential clients, and driving growth of our fabrication and design services. You will play a crucial role in expanding our market presence and contributing to the company’s long-term success.
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As CMC’s Cyber Security Operations Specialist, you will play a critical role in maintaining the security and integrity of our CMC information assets. You will be responsible for monitoring, detecting, analyzing, and responding to security events and incidents. Your role is vital in protecting CMC from threats and ensuring compliance with security policies and regulations.
You will be proactive in ensuring the operational readiness of CMC’s security infrastructure and its effectiveness in protecting corporate and customer intellectual property.
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As part of the core FABrIC project delivery team, the Senior Architect Advisor (Process Technologies) is responsible for identifying and working with potential FABrIC ultimate recipients (URs, industrial and academic) to identify and support the development of FABrIC challenge projects. The Senior Architect Advisor (Process Technologies) also maintains relationships with URs during the execution of challenge projects to facilitate collaborations and adoption of processes by the ecosystem. This position requires a current understanding of semiconductor process technologies including photonics, MEMS, compound semiconductors, quantum technologies, and related advanced packaging and test capabilities. This role engages directly with potential and approved URs, participates with them using a consultative problem-solving approach and involves and, as necessary, directs other employees to support UR needs.
Senior Architect Advisor (Process Technologies) Read More »
Lumatus Semiconductor tech cuts power consumption while improving display quality using MicroLED technology developed at the University of Waterloo.
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.
CMC Microsystems and Pasqal Embark on Quantum Collaboration Read More »
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.
Smart-Agrobotic Technologies, & SQK Join CMC Microsystems Read More »
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.
CMC Represents Canada at the 27th Annual World Micromachine Summit Read More »
Waterloo-based ICSPI Corp. started with a vision to make atomic force microscopes fast, easy-to-use, powerful – and accessible
ICSPI Launches Redux AFM Capping Over 15 years of Collaboration with CMC Read More »
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.
Dr. Gabriel Gagnon-Turcotte – Université Laval has been awarded the 2022 Douglas R. Colton Medal for Research Excellence. For his Master’s degree and PhD, Gagnon-Turcotte focused on the development of intelligent optogenetic microsystems applied to the study of brain diseases. This innovation has made it possible to investigate several hypotheses concerning the development of diseases
2022 Colton Award Winner Read More »
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.
Red River College Polytechnic and Cégep de Sherbrooke Join CMC Microsystems Read More »
Researchers at the Université de Sherbrooke (UdeS), supported by CMC Microsystems, are helping build sensors to detect ‘dark matter’ – the unknown substance that scientists think makes up about 25% of the universe.
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.
Semiconductor Leaders Meet in Nation’s Capital to Plot Industry Growth Read More »
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.
CMC Announces New Appointments to Board of Directors Read More »
CMC Microsystems, a not-for-profit organization, that currently supports a network of over 10,000 academic participants and 1,000 companies developing innovations in advanced technologies in Canada, invites you to come and grow with us! CMC is a member of the IBM Quantum Hub at PINQ2, Sherbrooke, Quebec – the first in Canada. IBM Quantum Hubs are regional centers for quantum computing research, development and implementation that provide members with cloud-based access to IBM’s exclusive quantum computing capability. By joining CMC’s Quantum Technologies Team, you will be part of a diverse team whose mission is to democratize access to quantum technologies to the Canadian quantum ecosystem.
Senior Scientific Staff – Quantum Computing Read More »
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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The following text was published by The Hill Times here
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.
Semiconductors: The Forgotten (but essential) Green Technology Read More »
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.
SILICAN is the Semiconductor Industry Leadership and Innovation Canada Action Network Read More »
Ron Glibbery, Peraso CEO (standing), Alexander Tomkins, Peraso CTO.
Canadian semiconductor company born out of CMC-enabled academic research is poised to play a big role in 5G wireless communications.
Peraso Inc. offers solutions that are ahead of the curve Read More »
Dr. Taleana Huff – University of Alberta Dr. Taleana Huff was awarded the 2021 Douglas R. Colton Medal for Research Excellence. For her Master’s degree and her PhD, Huff focused on “Atomic White-Out,” an error correction method for fabricating and patterning quantum dots. The technique gave Huff and the team the ability to successfully build
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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.
Amidst Ongoing Semiconductor Shortage, CMC Continues to Grow Chip Designers of Tomorrow Read More »
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
The following opinion piece was published in The Hill Times and EP&T.
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.
Canada-US semiconductor manufacturing corridor is an opportunity for Canada Read More »
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.
CMC Announces New Appointments to Board of Directors Read More »
An Edmonton-based start-up is developing a light-activated switch that controls microwaves at high frequencies and could increase the bandwidth of mobile devices and other communications equipment.
Greater Bandwidth for Next-Generation Mobile Communications Read More »
A Université de Sherbrooke start-up has developed a thin, lightweight thermal management system that can improve battery performance in electric vehicles (EV) and other applications
Making Better Batteries for the EV Revolution Read More »
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.
CMC Microsystems and The Semiconductor Service Bureau (S3B) Sign MOU Read More »
The following text appeared in The Hill Times, December 27, 2022
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.
Enabling a Globally Competitive Canadian Semiconductor Ecosystem Read More »
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.
Wrapping up 2022: The Year in Review Read More »
Luka Morita inspects the performance of high flow rate printing of exceptionally soft rubbers useful in prosthetics and soft robotics
Game changing 3D industrial printing technology inspired by a 19th-century invention Read More »
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.
Enabling the Next Generation of Canadian Semiconductor Makers Read More »
October 31, 2022: CMC Microsystems, Canada’s leading hardware technology facilitator and accelerator is pleased to welcome Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC) to CMC.
Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC) Joins CMC Microsystems Read More »
October 31, 2022: CMC Microsystems, Canada’s leading hardware technology facilitator and accelerator, is pleased to welcome the University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI) to CMC
The University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI) Joins CMC Microsystems Read More »
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