BROMONT, QUEBEC – The Université de Sherbrooke and its partners IBM and Teledyne DALSA today inaugurated the Centre de Collaboration MiQro Innovation (C2MI), the largest microelectronics center in Canada.

Located here, the C2MI enables the development and production of prototypes for the health, automotive, aerospace, environmental, IT, and telecommunication fields. The center will focus on development and assembly of silicon chips and MEMS. It is dedicated to the research and development of future generations of electronic products.

The C2MI serves as an interface between university and industrial research to accelerate commercialization.

In addition to IBM and Teledyne DALSA, more than 70 industrial partners contributed to the establishment of this center. These partners will continue to collaborate with the center and industrial and university colleagues.

The C2MI has 15,000 m² of space and provides companies with multiple clean rooms, specialized laboratories, technical services, and office space in two buildings that belong to the Université de Sherbrooke.

In addition to the $83 million construction of the facility, equipment is worth $135 million.

The project benefited from financial support of $218.45 million from partners and from the federal and provincial governments under the Canada-Quebec Agreement of the Knowledge Infrastructure Program. The C2MI is also recognized as a Centre of Excellence for Commercialization and Research, which makes it eligible for operating subsidies granted by the Networks of Centres of Excellence of Canada.

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