Saskatoon startup Novigrad is filling Canada's semiconductor gap by providing domestic radiation testing for space and defense electronics.

AI infrastructure spending is driving severe DRAM shortages that analysts expect to persist through 2027, transforming the memory market.

Canada's CSC urges the federal government to make chips a formal pillar of its AI strategy to secure sovereign compute.

NVMe 2.4 updates 11 base specs, adding post-quantum cryptography, advanced power monitoring, and subsystem migration for AI and cloud.

Marvell unveils SSD, CXL, and optical interconnects to tackle AI memory bottlenecks and boost inference efficiency for cloud workloads.

Samsung unveils an AI memory roadmap targeting 1,000 tokens/sec by 2030 with advanced HBM4E, zHBM, and 400+ layer V-NAND.

Renesas tackles AI memory bottlenecks with its Gen 3 DDR5 MRDIMM chipset, boosting speeds up to 16,000 MT/s for cloud data centers.

Dynamic AI workloads reshape the AI data center memory hierarchy, balancing cost, power, and bandwidth across HBM, LPDDR, and CXL.

Canada has the AI talent, but experts say the country must urgently build sovereign AI infrastructure at scale to stay globally competitive.

The government’s Defense Industrial Strategy helps Canadian semiconductor firms build sovereign capability and supply chain resilience.

One key feature of the upcoming update to JEDEC’s LPDDR6 will be a narrower x6 per-die interface, which enables higher capacities.

The University of Saskatchewan will leverage the open-architecture quantum computer for health, defense, energy, and agriculture research.

Canada’s photonics lab spinout strengthens semiconductor ecosystem, AI hardware, and advanced manufacturing capabilities.

SNIA MRAM alliance looks to unite a broader ecosystem to encourage Magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) adoption.

The UALink Consortium updates its AI accelerator spec to 2.0, adding in-network compute and chiplet support for faster, open scale-up fabrics.

Canada’s defense sector must better align investment, industry, and military to quickly adopt quantum technologies.

Marcel Franz of QMI discusses its expanding role in quantum research, from materials science to computing, highlighting collaboration and commercialization challenges.

TechInsights analysts agree that memory makers, wary of a post-AI downturn, are deliberately restraining DRAM supply.

NHanced chooses Avalanche’s space-grade MRAM for radiation-hardened FPGAs, targeting long-life satellite and defense applications where flash and ReRAM fall short.

Canada is competitive in quantum-related patents, driven by companies attracting new investment and government support.