            <p> Investing now could, in turn, also make Canada a more appealing place for international chip companies to do business, Chee said. The efforts have already attracted Nuvia Inc., a Santa Clara, Calif.-based silicon design company founded by some of the brains behind the chips that power Apple devices, which, on the heels of raising US$240 million, opened its first international office last year in the Greater Toronto Area. </p>
                <p> Chee is fond of quoting a figure from the Cali