With a strong infrastructure and outstanding research and development facilities, Ottawa is home to a diverse base of established companies including Chipworks Inc., Freescale Semiconductor Canada, Tundra Semiconductor, and Zarlink Semiconductor, together with dynamic emerging companies that include SiGe Semiconductor and Semiconductor Insights.

Ottawa’s flourishing semiconductor industry reflects a long history and deep strength in designing next generation semiconductors. This expertise is augmented by visionary developments in design and productivity tools to enhance fables semiconductor advances, particularly those related to wireless and telecommunications networking applications. This industry’s emergence in Ottawa stems largely from the region’s government laboratories and universities, coupled with the recent addition of world-class companies.

Ottawa’s semiconductor cluster is highly diversified. The cluster includes electronic component design, with some manufacturing, as well as computer hardware design and manufacturing and applications for defence and private industry.

This cluster is supported by national initiatives such as the Strategic Microelectronics Council (SMC), under the arm of the Information Technology Association of Canada, and the Canadian Microelectronics Corporation (CMC), two key organizations advancing the semiconductor industry in Canada. Located in Ottawa, the SMC is a not-for-profit national industry association that works to articulate a national strategy for the cluster. The CMC, also a not-for-profit organization, is dedicated to facilitating strategic alliances between the semiconductor industry and Canadian universities and educational institutions helping to ensure the production of well-trained graduates.

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