BlackPearl Group partners with C2MI to bridge product-to-market gap
by CM staff
The partnership aims to strengthen the resilience of the critical North American semiconductor supply chain.
Photo: CNW Group/Centre de Collaboration MiQro Innovation (C2MI).
THE WOODLANDS — The BlackPearl group of companies partners with the MiQro Innovation Collaborative Centre (C2MI), based in Bromont, Québec, in alignment with the initiative discussed by President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau amid Biden’s visit to Canada last month. This partnership aims to strengthen the resilience of the critical North American semiconductor supply chain.
C2MI’s founding partners IBM Canada Ltd, Teledyne MEMS along with Université de Sherbrooke are welcoming BlackPearl as a new member to complete the centre’s technology offering. BlackPearl’s role is to assist the hundreds of companies within the C2MI ecosystem with development, commercialization of their products, as well as oversight and management of the SMT line in this facility.
Located in Bromont, Québec, C2MI is the largest research and development centre in Canada dedicated solely to microelectronic systems.
BlackPearl covers the spectrum from conception, product design, PCB manufacturing, surface mount assembly, and advanced electronic packaging, as well as full mechanical, electrical, software, and firmware engineering.
The partnership with C2MI enables BlackPearl to transform prototypes and early-stage research into market-ready commodities while diversifying supply chains vital to clean energy, electric vehicles, semiconductors, aerospace, and defense.
In preparation for the partnership, BlackPearl created two new Canadian entities, BlackPearl Research, Inc. (Recherches Perle Noire, Inc.) and BlackPearl Innovation, Inc. (Innovation Perle Noire, Inc.), that will provide a premier investment role in Canada, specifically Bromont, Quebec, where a concentration of world leaders and corporations in semiconductors are setting the base of the new industrial Albany-Bromont Corridor.
“In our field of advanced technology, it is always exciting and inspiring to have partners for whom technology mixes with innovative ideas and sharpens creative minds to enable the development of new and novel technology products,” said said Marie-Josée Turgeon, CEO of C2MI. “We are delighted to welcome BlackPearl as a member and partner for the card assembly and printed electronics technologies in our Research Center. Their know-how, expertise, and experience in the field of custom assembly and embedded systems will be a major asset for the entire Quebec and Canadian microelectronics ecosystem. Their service offerings, which are a welcomed addition to ours, will serve to complete the research, development and prototyping activities of new products intended for a multitude of market segments in our world where digital technologies are at the forefront.”
