Semiconductors & Photonics in Canada
Discover Canadian companies building chips, photonic integrated circuits, optical components, sensors and semiconductor process technology.
- 91
- Canadian Semiconductors & Photonics companies
- 7
- Provinces
- 398
- Source-backed claims
What they build
A second axis inside the sector: what each company actually builds, rather than the industry it sells into. Every count is derived from the directory.
Featured Canadian Semiconductors & Photonics Companies
A selection of Canadian Semiconductors & Photonics companies from the directory.
Xanadu Quantum Technologies
Toronto, ON
Builds scalable, modular, room-temperature photonic quantum computers and leads PennyLane, an open-source quantum programming library. Trades on Nasdaq and TSX as XNDU following a March 2026 SPAC merger.
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5N Plus
Montréal, QC
Montréal producer of ultra-high-purity specialty semiconductor compounds and wafers — cadmium telluride, cadmium zinc telluride and indium antimonide — plus multi-junction space solar cells, bismuth chemicals and low-melting-point alloys.
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Accelovant
North Vancouver, BC
North Vancouver designer and manufacturer of fibre-optic temperature sensors and edge controllers for semiconductor process equipment, AI data centres and high-voltage power systems, built on a proprietary photo-luminescent ceramic sensor material.
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AEPONYX
Montreal, QC
Designs silicon-nitride photonic integrated circuits with integrated MEMS optical switches, used for tunable lasers, filtering and switching in telecom, sensing and quantum systems. A Pasqal subsidiary since 2025.
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Applied Brain Research
Waterloo, ON
Waterloo developer of state-space-model AI for edge devices, licensing speech-to-text and text-to-speech software and selling the TSP1 accelerator ASIC for low-power on-device voice and sensor inference.
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Explore Semiconductors & Photonics Companies by Region
Where the 91 Semiconductors & Photonics companies in this directory are based. Regions with none are not shown.
Ontario39 Semiconductors & Photonics companies
Québec33 Semiconductors & Photonics companies
British Columbia7 Semiconductors & Photonics companies
Alberta6 Semiconductors & Photonics companies
Atlantic Canada4 Semiconductors & Photonics companies
Manitoba & Saskatchewan2 Semiconductors & Photonics companies
About Semiconductors & Photonics in Canada
This sector covers integrated circuits and chip design, photonic integrated circuits, lasers and optical components, compound semiconductors and MEMS, packaging, and the process and metrology technology used to make them.
Photonics is the larger part of it in this dataset, and it connects directly to Quantum and to Cloud & Digital Infrastructure — the same optical components turn up in a quantum computer and in a data-centre interconnect.
How this list is built
Every Semiconductors & Photonics record here is hand-checked, and the 398 claims across them each link to a page you can open. Where a figure is not published, the field is left blank rather than estimated.
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- Funding opportunities30 government and partner programs open to Semiconductors & Photonics companies, including any-industry ones.View funding
- Research institutes4 Canadian research institutes and labs working in Semiconductors.View institutes