C-COM Receives Semiconductor Funding

July 8, 2025

C-COM Satellite Systems Inc., has been awarded $412,550 funding grant over 2 years from ISED Canada under the CMC/FABrIC program.

Managed by CMC Microsystems, FABrIC is a five-year, $223 million initiative to secure Canada’s future in semiconductors.

The project entitled “High Efficiency Beamforming IC and Intelligent Beam-forming Antenna Modules for Satellite IoT and ESA Terminals” aims to develop next generation integrated circuits which will be used in the C-COM designed Ka-band electronically steered phased array antennas as well as for satellite based IoT applications.

This project was one of 5 awarded to companies based in the province of Ontario. The total investment by all parties in this project is $2.46 million over 2 years.

“We are grateful to FABrIC, CMC Microsystems and Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) for this financial assistance,” said Dr. Leslie Klein, President and CEO of C-COM Satellite Systems Inc. “This grant will allow C-COM to enter a new vertical market with a market potential of multiple billions of dollars and at the same time provide the company with its own enhanced Ka-band semiconductor IC technology, which will make our flat panel electronically steered antennas more cost effective and better performing.”