Innovation and Development from Canadian Institute.

The C2MI has received $8million in additional funding from the Canadian government.

The C2MI are a research and development center working on designing and prototyping microelectronics. Based in Quebec, their work focuses on three main areas:
1.    Semiconductors
2.    Specialised Circuits & Systems
3.    Electronics Assembly

Utilising strong links between academic institutions and numerous electronic companies, the team create new innovations, prototypes and designs. Semtech, IBM and CMC Microsystems are just some of the names working with the C2MI. 

The money has been granted thanks to the Centres of Excellence for Commercialization and Research (CECR) program which invests 30 million a year in Canadian innovation. The program creates links between research expertise and the business community to get innovations to the market faster.

“We are very grateful for this renewed support from the government of Canada towards C2MI and its partners, which allow us to grow into an international pole of innovation in microsystems and to continue working in synergy with Canadian SME's and researchers. We are proud to have contributed over the past 4 years, not only to the economic growth but to the recognition of the Canadian expertise while helping several industry sectors with the technological challenges that can be solved with electronic microsystems integration. “– Normand Bourbonnais, President - CEO, C2MI


The C2MI is a great asset for Canada and the semiconductor industry as a whole. You can find out more about the C2MI and what they do by visiting their website. Subscribe to the Atlantis blog, follow us on Twitter or like us on Facebook to keep up to date with all the latest company and industry news.

Top 20 Semiconductor Companies

The rankings for the top 20 semiconductor sales for Q1 2015 have been released. Intel and Samsung are in 1^st and 2^nd place respectively and not surprisingly! The other companies within the top 20 are also unsurprising with other big names such as Qualcomm, TI and Avago all entering the top 20.

What is interesting however is that the top 4 all have completely different business models:

• Intel – a pureplay IDM
• Samsung – Vertically integrated IC supplier
• TSMS – a pureplay Foundry
• Qualcomm – A fabless company

All of the top 20 have made a huge amount of money in the first quarter, especially TSMC with their sales from 1Q14 to 1Q15 increasing a gigantic 44%! Intel's sales have remained flat but they remain on top and ahead of Samsung by $2,296M.

 

The majority of the companies are US based with 7 of them hailing from North America. Of the rest 4 are in Japan, 3 in Taiwan, 3 in Europe, 2 in South Korea and 1 in Singapore. There is quite broad mixture of locations showing that not one country is dominating completely.

With all the mergers and acquisitions in the pipeline such as NXP & Freescale and Microchip & Micrel, and no doubt there will be many other M&As occurring which we have no clue about yet, this ranking is likely to change considerably in the future.

Great start to 2015 for semiconductor industry

Global semiconductor sales are increasingly positive with overall sales totaling $28.5 billion! This is an increase of 8.7% from January 2014 which is great news indeed! The totals for January 2015 is the industry's highest ever January total. Doing particularly well are the Americas which have increased by 16.4% compared to this time last year.

The figures come from the Semiconductor Industry Association and their CEO John Neuffer was very pleased with the results: "After a record-setting 2014, the global semiconductor industry is off to a promising start to 2015, posting its highest-ever January sales led by impressive growth in the Americas market."

After such a great year in 2014 it seems like 2015 may well be shaping up to be just as positive! Keep up to date with all the industry news by subscribing to our blog, liking us on Facebook or connecting on LinkedIn