NAICS 334410Canadian industry · 6-digitinternational market1 market record

Semiconductor and other electronic component manufacturing

SoftwareEDA, CAD & Product Lifecycle Management

This Canadian industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing semiconductors and other electronic components. — Statistics Canada, NAICS 2022A

Establishments · CanadaA: 322
Under 10 employeesA: 37%

Size and shape

How many businesses there are and how small they are. Fragmentation is the first thing an entrant — or anyone selling software into this industry — needs to know, and it is one of the few things that is actually measured.

Canadian establishments by number of employeesA

1–47925%

5–94113%

10–196420%

20–495116%

50–994213%

100–199247%

200–499186%

500+31%

Of 322 Canadian establishments with employees, 37% have fewer than ten — an industry where large establishments carry real weight.

Where they areA

Ontario15949%

Quebec9429%

British Columbia3411%

Alberta206%

Largest four provinces by establishment count. Establishments with employees only — sole operators with no payroll are not in this table, so in trades and personal services the true number of businesses is higher.

How many new establishments are still tradingA

Manufacturing, US · opened 2020

86.2%

1 year

70.8%

3 years

58.4%

5 years

45.3%

10 years

opened 2015

Measured, not forecast: the share of US establishments opening in one year that were still active later. It counts good operators and bad ones together, which is exactly why it is the honest answer to “what are the odds”. It is for the whole sector rather than this market, and the ten-year figure comes from an older cohort because no younger one has reached ten years.

No US figure is shown. County Business Patterns is coded to the 2017 US edition of NAICS; this code either does not exist there, names a different industry, or is outside the programme's coverage (most of agriculture, rail, postal and public administration are). A figure is attached only where both the code and the title agree.

How businesses here compete

The structural profile of subsector 334, which every industry beneath it inherits. This is analyst judgment from how the subsector is organised — not research into this industry, and not a measurement.

international competitionhigh capitalUNVERIFIEDinherited from 334 Computer and electronic product manufacturing

Design-led, with manufacturing contracted out. An entry is a product company, not a factory.

Who sets the price: Global component markets and design wins.
The software it runs on: Electronic design automation, product lifecycle and test systems.

Market screens and studies

Market-entry records filed along this branch of the hierarchy. A record at or beneath this code is about this industry; one above it is about something wider that contains it.

No operating-business record sits in this industry — the record filed here is a software market, shown in the next section.

Software serving this industry

The vertical software markets filed along the same branch — who sells to these businesses and who they would have to displace — and then the generic categories every business buys whatever it does.

Vertical softwareScreened

EDA, CAD & Product Lifecycle ManagementStructure decides

binding constraint: entry cost

Incumbent Cadence Design Systems, Synopsys, Siemens EDA

EDA tools must be qualified against each foundry's process design kits, which means the foundry — not the customer — is the gatekeeper. That certification relationship is the barrier, and it is decades deep. The adjacent CAD/PLM market is less closed but is held by companies with billions in R&D and engineering user bases trained over careers.

NAICS 3344104 vendors named7 sourced figuresOpen →

Catalogued categories — named, not analysed

Discrete manufacturing ERP SaaS 31-33

And what every business buys · 25 generic categories

Sold to every industry rather than this one, so they are filed against the software industry's own code. The same few vendors recur across most of them.

Companies in this industry · 5

Every company this research names that is filed here or beneath — the operators, and the vendors that sell to them — largest disclosed revenue first. The rank is within the company’s own six-digit industry.

Company	Filed under	Revenue	Rank
SynopsysNASDAQ:SNPS	Semiconductor and other electronic component manufacturing334410	$8.0B	1/5
AltiumASX:ALU	Semiconductor and other electronic component manufacturing334410	—	2/5
CadenceNASDAQ:CDNS	Semiconductor and other electronic component manufacturing334410	—	3/5
PTCPrivate	Semiconductor and other electronic component manufacturing334410	—	4/5
Siemens EDAPrivate	Semiconductor and other electronic component manufacturing334410	—	5/5

Who works here

The occupations employed in Manufacturing, most concentrated in it first. The share is measured against the whole sector, not this industry — the published cross-tabulation stops there.

Concentrated in this sectorA

Aircraft assemblers and aircraft assembly inspectors One industry 91.3%

Supervisors, assembly and fabrication One industry 88.3%

Machine operators and related workers in pulp and paper production and wood processing and manufacturing One industry 86.1%

Managers in manufacturing and utilities One industry 84.4%

Machine operators and related workers in chemical, plastic and rubber processing One industry 82.7%

Mechanical, electrical and electronics assemblers and inspectors One industry 82.3%

Machine operators and related workers in food, beverage and associated products processing One industry 79.1%

Machine operators and related workers in mineral and metal products processing and manufacturing One industry 77.7%

Furniture, wood, plastic and other products assemblers, finishers and inspectors One industry 73.9%

Machine operators and related workers in textile, fabric, fur and leather products processing and manufacturing One industry 70.8%

These jobs are mostly done here. An operator in this industry is competing for them against others in the same industry, not against the whole economy.

And the jobs every business has

Other technical trades Across the economy 20%

Technical occupations in electronics and electrical engineering Across the economy 16.3%

Shoe repairers, shoemakers and upholsterers Across the economy 15.2%

Administrative and financial supervisors Across the economy 11.6%

Technical inspectors and regulatory officers Across the economy 10.7%

Administrative services managers Across the economy 9.6%

Legislative and senior managers Across the economy 9.2%

Building maintenance installers, servicers and repairers Across the economy 8.3%

Financial, insurance and related administrative support workers Across the economy 7.7%

Technical occupations in computer and information systems Across the economy 4.8%

Found across at least fourteen of the twenty sectors. In a small establishment several of these are usually one person, or an outside provider.

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