Canada Feeling Out Its Role in Global Chip Supply Chain

Second in a three-part series: Designed and Made in Canada. Read the first part here.

www.eetimes.com/, Jan. 23, 2024 – 

The most pressing question for Canada's semiconductor industry isn't whether it can scale up its chipmaking capabilities but how to go about doing so.

While the country is geographically larger than the U.S., Canada's population only recently hit 40 million people. If its neighbor south of the border is struggling to find enough people to scale up onshore capabilities in the wake of the U.S. CHIPS Act, Canada arguably needs to be pragmatic about how it builds its manufacturing capacity–and it must be realistic about how much it can contribute to the global semiconductor supply chain, experts told EE Times.

If the key to the country's success is focusing on strengths, then spending billions on a single fab may not be the best approach, even if, as Reuters has reported, two levels of government are willing to invest CAD$15 billion of taxpayer money toward the construction of an electric-vehicle battery plant.

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