Photonic Proposes CAD$500 Million Canadian Semiconductor Manufacturing Facility
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Photonic’s proposed CAD$500M multi-tenant fab in Canada is another move toward regional, shared semiconductor capacity for specialized chips. Hardware and quantum startups should track this as a potential path out of US/Asia foundry dependence—especially for low-to-mid volume runs that struggle to get priority at major fabs.
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