Hypertec's Ciara to make first NVIDIA OEM systems in Canada

Ciara Technologies has become the first Canadian NVIDIA Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) partner to manufacture systems in Canada, bringing domestic production of NVIDIA-certified systems to the country.

The move centres on Ciara, a Montréal-based division of information technology products and services provider Hypertec Group. The designation allows the company to build Canadian-made AI servers for enterprises, researchers and public institutions seeking local infrastructure.

The announcement puts Canada in a small group of countries with local manufacturing and integration for NVIDIA Certified Systems. It also adds a domestic supply option as governments and companies pay closer attention to data sovereignty, supply chains and national computing capacity.

Ciara will manufacture NVIDIA-certified AI servers in Canada as part of a broader business spanning hardware design, cluster integration, modular data-centre construction and managed services. According to Hypertec, that structure allows the group to cover several stages of AI infrastructure delivery within Canada.

Hypertec said the initiative could generate billions of dollars in economic activity and support high-skilled jobs across engineering, research, advanced manufacturing and AI infrastructure. It did not provide a financial breakdown.

For the Canadian industry, the designation addresses a long-standing issue in the AI market: strong research credentials without equivalent domestic industrial capacity. The country has produced prominent AI research institutions and talent, but large-scale infrastructure deployment and system manufacturing have often depended on foreign suppliers.

"AI infrastructure is now strategic infrastructure," said Simon Ahdoot, CEO of Hypertec Group. "This breakthrough marks a turning point for Canada. We are building the infrastructure that will define its future. As NVIDIA's first Canadian OEM partner, we are strengthening Canada's ability to innovate, scale, and compete globally with secure, high-performance systems built at home."

The new status is also expected to help AI factory developers source systems locally. Hypertec cited 5C Group, a developer of digital infrastructure for AI.

NVIDIA said the arrangement gives a Canadian manufacturer direct standing within its OEM framework. That status typically provides access to engineering resources, reference architectures, integration frameworks and product roadmaps used to build systems aligned with NVIDIA requirements.

Eric Dahan, Country Director for Canada at NVIDIA, highlighted the domestic production aspect and its reach across sectors. "Canada is home to one of the world's most advanced AI ecosystems. As NVIDIA's first Canadian OEM manufacturing partner, Hypertec is enabling local production of NVIDIA-accelerated systems to power innovation across industries, from healthcare, financial services and agriculture to advanced manufacturing, energy and technology," he said.

Founded in 1984, Hypertec says it serves clients in more than 80 countries. The latest move shifts part of Canada's AI story from research leadership to local manufacturing, with Ciara now holding the first Canadian place in NVIDIA's OEM program for systems made in the country.