Microsystems International Ltd.

Example Artifact

Company

Kanata, ON

Montréal, QC

1969-01-01

1974-01-01

Crystal Bay, Ottawa, ON (1969-1974)

Kanata, ON (1969-1974)

800 Dorchester [now René-Lévesque] Blvd. W., Montréal, QC (1969-1974)

Microchips

Computing

Manufacturing

Designing

Created by: Northern Electric (Montréal, QC)

Acquired by: Bell-Northern Research (Ottawa, ON)

Related: Mitel (Kanata, ON)

- 1969 – Founded in Crystal Bay and Kanata, ON as a spinoff from Northern Electric to develop and manufacture computer semiconductor circuits. (Wikipedia, “Microsystems International”)

- 1971 – Microsystems International Limited (MIL) pays a licensing fee to manufacture the Intel 1103 DRAM IC microchip. (Wikipedia, “Microsystems International”)

- 1973 – Active with offices at 800 Dorchester [now René-Lévesque] Blvd. W., Montréal, QC. (“microsystems international limited - Notice of Annual Meeting of Shareholders”)

- 1974 – Michael Cowpland and Terry Matthews leave Microsystems International to found their own microchip company, Mitel. (Wikipedia, “Microsystems International”)

- 1974 – MIL is purchased and folded into Bell-Northern Research, then the research arm of Northern Electric. Northern Electric previously owned 68.5% of the company’s shares. (Wikipedia, “Microsystems International”; Patterson, “Microsystems’ misadventures prove costly”)

“Microsystems International” Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsystems_International) [13-11-24]

“microsystems international limited – Notice of Annual Meeting of Shareholders” (1973) (Pamphlet) (https://archive.org/details/Micr0821_1973_0/mode/2up)

Patterson, Anthony J. “Microsystems’ misadventures prove costly” The Ottawa Citizen, October 21, 1974: 73