Canada is the Next Nation That is Getting Ready to Invest in the Semiconductor Industry

[TheLostSwede]

The Canadian government is getting ready to invest C$240 million (about US$187 million) into what the country calls the Semiconductor Challenge Callout. C$90 million of that will go towards the Canadian Photonics Fabrication Centre (CPFC), which is as the name implies, a facility that engineers and manufactures a range of photonics products, mostly on the prototyping level. The remaining C$150 million is up for grabs through the Strategic Innovation Fund, which is a government fund set up to help Canadian companies grow.

François-Philippe Champagne, the Canadian Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry is quoted as saying "By investing in Canada's semiconductor industry, we are making a firm commitment to businesses looking to invest in Canada. Whether it's high-value or large-scale manufacturing, we want to see Canada be home to the world's leading semiconductor manufacturers.". Exactly which companies will be asking for a share of the money is currently up in the air, but according to The Register, the Canadian government is looking for a wide range of potential semiconductor related businesses. Some examples are 2.5D and 3D chip packaging, MEMS sensor manufacturing and so on. None of this is compared to what the US, EU, Taiwan, Korea and the PRC are currently working on, but it could very well end up being supplemental to much of what's going on in the US semiconductor market right now.



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[DeathtoGnomes]

I was expecting Canada to dive into chip manufacturing, but semiconductors would probably be better for it.


Take off, eh?

 

[sepheronx]

Yeah, sure.

We can't even build a petroleum plant on budget and on time.

Our major production of semiconductors and or general tech was Nortel and I remember when that went bust. I ended up cleaning out one of their warehouses to make way for another company. Everyone at the end stole whatever wasn't bolted to the ground.

 

[oobymach]

Come on, we're only 73 years behind the times eh, our second computer just arrived last year, an ENIAC model 1 to upgrade from our old Babbage Difference Engine. We can compute kilobytes worth of data now saving us thousands of man hours.

 

[TheUn4seen]

The real question is: Will those semiconductors be polite?
It's better late than never and this is a market which will not only be growing for the foreseeable future, but is quickly becoming a strategic asset. Canada's primary economic sector is petroleum industries and forestry, so not very future-proof. For the last several years they're investing heavily in science and technology so going for semiconductors is fitting.

 

[zlobby]

Reality check - just because it's trendy and in demand, it doesn't mean you can pull it off. Especially not with that clown, Turdeau.

 

[TechLurker]

I wonder how long until it's sabotaged by American manipulation, and the talent hired into American rivals instead? /AvroArrowMeme

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
When states or countries don't have a lot of manufacturing is because of Robbinhood policies that either tax them to death or expensive red tape constructing plants
A fund like this or more than half looks more like fluff money for their buddies to funnel to so called "legally"

 

[Garrus]

No thanks. As a Canadian the last thing I want is the government picking winners and losers. Let's start with 2/3 of people having no doctor in BC because of our communist system, start with fixing that.

Canada is famous for having two of the largest tech companies in the world, Nortel and Blackberry, both of which went bankrupt and caused me to make about zero dollars in Canadian stocks for 8 years. Our government just bought a pipeline 5 years ago or whatever, now it is going to cost 3x more to finish and we still have no new pipeline. Canada was destroying our oil and gas industry at the same time as wasting government money on it trying to support it also.

 

[mechtech]

Wow lots of negative and cynical comments here. Like anything, it can be good or bad on how it's handled/implemented. Maybe they should have negotiated with TSMC and built a plant here somewhere.

As a Canadian, this country does have to do something to get industry/manufacturing/etc. going again. Once the minerals are mined out and the oil pumped out, won't be anything left but trees and water. It's too bad our petroleum and mining and forestry industries/sectors are not set up like Norway's StatOil, and it's also too bad our government is not as transparent as the Nordic countries are.

Hopefully something positive comes of this and it's not money down the drain.

 

[sepheronx]

Wow lots of negative and cynical comments here. Like anything, it can be good or bad on how it's handled/implemented. Maybe they should have negotiated with TSMC and built a plant here somewhere.

As a Canadian, this country does have to do something to get industry/manufacturing/etc. going again. Once the minerals are mined out and the oil pumped out, won't be anything left but trees and water. It's too bad our petroleum and mining and forestry industries/sectors are not set up like Norway's StatOil, and it's also too bad our government is not as transparent as the Nordic countries are.

Hopefully something positive comes of this and it's not money down the drain.

Not with the retards us Canadians keep electing.

There is no real leader here and it's the government involved in this. Want to see our track record? Take a look at Winnipeg as a great example. Like around 1997 time. Or what about: Bombardier, Nortel, Blackberry just to name a few?

We went from being a rather strong diversified economy to now relying on resources and automotive. We import petrol at market price from the US while we sell them oil at a discount. I wonder if that same oil is being refined and sold back to us at market? How funny would that be.

So there is a reason to be cynical.

 

[Garrus]

Wow lots of negative and cynical comments here. Like anything, it can be good or bad on how it's handled/implemented. Maybe they should have negotiated with TSMC and built a plant here somewhere.

As a Canadian, this country does have to do something to get industry/manufacturing/etc. going again. Once the minerals are mined out and the oil pumped out, won't be anything left but trees and water. It's too bad our petroleum and mining and forestry industries/sectors are not set up like Norway's StatOil, and it's also too bad our government is not as transparent as the Nordic countries are.

Hopefully something positive comes of this and it's not money down the drain.

Those oil and gas industries are being sucked try to feed the rest of the government. If you want it Norway style, get Alberta out of confederation, that's a good start.

 

[Minus Infinity]

Meanwhile in the technological backwater aka Australia all we hear is the sounds of crickets chirping. Clueless Luddite in the feds should have been spruiking Australia to as many players as they could, but these clowns would rather us mine coal or natural gas.

Not with the retards us Canadians keep electing.

There is no real leader here and it's the government involved in this. Want to see our track record? Take a look at Winnipeg as a great example. Like around 1997 time. Or what about: Bombardier, Nortel, Blackberry just to name a few?

We went from being a rather strong diversified economy to now relying on resources and automotive. We import petrol at market price from the US while we sell them oil at a discount. I wonder if that same oil is being refined and sold back to us at market? How funny would that be.

So there is a reason to be cynical.

Australia and Canada are virtually clones. Same Luddite thinking relying on dinosaur tech. It's like they hionestlky believe they are too stupid to do anything else. We destroyed our manufacturing to empower the Chinese and it's both hilarious and infuriating to see how much they hate us now.

Trudeau may be a joke, but compared to that fwit that came before him he's miles better. If those scum get back in you'll see the country become a pariah state as the world isolates them for their fossil fuel insanity, just as we have in Australia.

 

[lexluthermiester]

I was expecting Canada to dive into chip manufacturing, but semiconductors would probably be better for it.

I thought they are ready had. Didn't RIM have a chip fab in eastern Canada?

Take off, eh?

Where's the back-bacon you hoser?

I think this is a good thing for Canada. We need more fabs in North America so we don't have to depend on China so much.

 

[zlobby]

Not with the retards us Canadians keep electing.

So there is a reason to be cynical.

Judging from what's is and has been happening around the globe, there is no country I'd rather be in right now, or in the near future for that matter. Mars is looking better and better every day...
But knowing who can actually go there, I'd say 'GG y'all'. Carpe diem.

We need more fabs in North America so we don't have to depend on China so much.

World is quite smaller than most people believe it to be. Everyone depend on everyone. Humanity's only hope is for the people to realize that the way forward is only when we are together, one in our differences.
Then again...

 

[lexluthermiester]

World is quite smaller than most people believe it to be. Everyone depend on everyone. Humanity's only hope is for the people to realize that the way forward is only when we are together, one in our differences.

There is a lot of good wisdom there!

 

[Punkenjoy]

It's true that the world need to be more interconnect, but the world also need more competitions and alternatives.

There is already small semiconductor industry in Québec mostly doing CCD so we might not start totally from scratch.

 

[Totally]

Meanwhile in the technological backwater aka Australia all we hear is the sounds of crickets chirping. Clueless Luddite in the feds should have been spruiking Australia to as many players as they could, but these clowns would rather us mine coal or natural gas.


Australia and Canada are virtually clones. Same Luddite thinking relying on dinosaur tech. It's like they hionestlky believe they are too stupid to do anything else. We destroyed our manufacturing to empower the Chinese and it's both hilarious and infuriating to see how much they hate us now.

Trudeau may be a joke, but compared to that fwit that came before him he's miles better. If those scum get back in you'll see the country become a pariah state as the world isolates them for their fossil fuel insanity, just as we have in Australia.

The same Chinese, that are making ever increasing threats towards you aussies just about every other week? How does that work out?

 

[freeagent]

How does that work out?

Very good, but brick not hit back.

 

[Garrus]

Meanwhile in the technological backwater aka Australia all we hear is the sounds of crickets chirping. Clueless Luddite in the feds should have been spruiking Australia to as many players as they could, but these clowns would rather us mine coal or natural gas.


Australia and Canada are virtually clones. Same Luddite thinking relying on dinosaur tech. It's like they hionestlky believe they are too stupid to do anything else. We destroyed our manufacturing to empower the Chinese and it's both hilarious and infuriating to see how much they hate us now.

Trudeau may be a joke, but compared to that fwit that came before him he's miles better. If those scum get back in you'll see the country become a pariah state as the world isolates them for their fossil fuel insanity, just as we have in Australia.

The only difference between Canada and Australia is that Canada was tied with the US, now we're 30 percent poorer, while in the last 30 years Australia grew from 30 percent poorer than Canada to beating Canada and getting close to the US. Switching places. Until the Australia government went covid-insane Australia was the top most immigration pick for Canadians and Americans. Now we want to go to Florida or Texas or Idaho.

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

Didn't RIM have a chip fab in eastern Canada?

I did a quick search for RIM, it comes up Research in Motion, if thats what you are referring to.

BlackBerry Limited - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[lexluthermiester]

I did a quick search for RIM, it comes up Research in Motion, if thats what you are referring to.

BlackBerry Limited - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Yup. I thought they had opened an ASIC fab in Canada..

 

[Palladium]

The same Chinese, that are making ever increasing threats towards you aussies just about every other week? How does that work out?

Ah yes, big bad China that couped Gough Whitlam.

With friends like America, who needs enemies.

 

[TheLostSwede]

No-one noticed my easter egg

 

[Qs12qa]

No-one noticed my easter egg

ati on canada flag?