At VentureLab’s HardTech Summit this week, the spotlight was on how to build Canada’s semiconductor sector amid rising pressure from the United States (US) and shifting geopolitical conditions.
These conversations come in the wake of multiple promising Canadian artificial intelligence (AI) chip startups either moving south or getting snapped up by larger American players, including CentML, Hyperlume, Tenstorrent, and Untether AI.
Canadian semiconductor leaders BetaKit spoke with at the summit said this recent activity is positive, and believed that a successful ecosystem features both independent domestic startups and big foreign players with deep Canadian operations.