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SiTime Enters Smartphone Market with First MEMS Oscillator

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 03:48:44 GMT

Revolutionary Product Family is 85% Smaller and Offers 50% Power Savings

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SUNNYVALE, Calif. – March 27, 2013 – SiTime Corporation, the fastest growing semiconductor company, today introduced the SiT15xx family of 32 kHz MEMS oscillators that replace legacy quartz crystal resonators. This new family is targeted at mobile applications, such as smartphones and tablets, which require small size and low power. The SiT15xx family overcomes the limitations of quartz-based devices in several ways; SiTime’s solutions offer area savings of 85%, cuts power by 50% and are 15 times more reliable, all of which enable smaller, lower power and longer lasting mobile electronics.

“SiTime’s groundbreaking silicon MEMS and

SiTime Adds Industry Veterans to Executive Team

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 16:46:18 GMT

New Leadership in Sales, Engineering and Operations to Capitalize on Growth Opportunities

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SUNNYVALE, Calif. – March 19, 2013 – SiTime Corporation, the fastest growing semiconductor company, today announced the addition of three industry veterans to its executive team. Mark Lunsford joins SiTime as executive vice president of sales and is responsible for driving SiTime’s revenue growth and customer adoption. Vinod Menon joins SiTime as executive vice president of engineering and is responsible for delivering unique, leadership timing solutions that use SiTime’s revolutionary MEMS and analog technology. Pavan Gupta, a SiTime veteran, was recently promoted to vice president of operations, and is now responsible for leading SiTime’s high volume manufacturing and quality organizations. All three new executives will report to

SiTime Expands Portfolio with +125C MEMS Oscillators for Industrial and High Reliability Applications

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 02:12:41 GMT

Best Robustness and Reliability are Ideal for Harsh Environments; Best Stability and Power Consumption Improve System Performance

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SUNNYVALE, Calif. – January 23, 2013 – SiTime Corporation, the fastest growing semiconductor company, today introduced the SiT8920 MEMS oscillator for industrial and high reliability applications. Due to its unique silicon MEMS and analog architecture, the SiT8920 outperforms quartz oscillators in every major performance category. While operating over the widest temperature range, -55°C to +125°C, the SiT8920 consumes half the power of quartz oscillators, is twice as stable, 20 times more reliable and 30 times more robust to shock and vibration. These key benefits dramatically improve system performance and reduce failures in harsh environments.

SiTime is the Fastest Growing Semiconductor Company in North America

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:04:31 GMT

Ranking Based on Deloitte’s 2012 Technology Fast 500™

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Carsem congratulates SiTime for being named the fastest growing semiconductor company and believes SiTime is at least several years ahead of other large semiconductor players in MEMS timing technology and market leadership. More>
- Carsem, a leading provider of turnkey packaging and test services

The Deloitte 2012 Technology Fast 500 award is a validation of how SiTime MEMS timing solutions have become a success in the market. This award means a lot to Brilliant Technologies Company and we expect this will accelerate our expansion into the market. Moreover, we recognize that SiTime products

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SiTime’s Unique Digitally Controlled Oscillators (DCXOs) Replace Quartz VCXOs in Telecom and Embedded Applications

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 00:34:12 GMT

SiT3907 Offers In-System Digital Control Interface to Enable Simpler, Higher Performance and More Reliable Systems

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SUNNYVALE, Calif. – October 24, 2012 – SiTime Corporation, an analog semiconductor company that is revolutionizing the timing market, today introduced the SiT3907 MEMS-based Digitally Controlled Oscillator (DCXO). The SiT3907 DCXO is radically different than analog, quartz-based VCXOs as it offers an in-system digital control interface that is used for tuning the output frequency. This unique feature, along with 100 times better linearity and 8 times better pull range than quartz VCXOs, improves performance and enables simpler, more reliable systems. The SiT3907 is fully programmable to accelerate development. Samples are shipped in
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Vectron International & Knowles Electronics Partners with SiTime Corporation

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 16:12:49 GMT

Solidifying leadership position in MEMS Timing devices

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Hudson, NH August 1, 2012 – Vectron International and Knowles Electronics today issues a joint announcement that they have entered into a strategic partnership with SiTime Corporation. The partnership, which includes a cash investment by Vectron and Knowles, brings together three world class companies with the goal of driving unprecedented growth in MEMS Timing into the $4B Frequency Control Products (FCP) market.

Speaking from Knowles’s headquarters in Itasca IL, Knowles CEO Jeff Niew said: “I am delighted to announce this strategic partnership. Knowles Electronics has long been known as an innovator and a leader in MEMS microphones and we look forward to bring the same level of success to the SiTime family of MEMS
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SiTime’s Programmable MEMS Oscillators Provide Reference Timing for Xilinx’s 7 Series Evaluation Kits

Mon, 21 May 2012 22:27:26 GMT

Programmable, Rich Feature Set Offers High Performance and Flexibility

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SUNNYVALE, Calif. – May 22, 2012 – SiTime Corporation, an analog semiconductor company that is revolutionizing the $6 billion timing market with Silicon MEMS solutions, today announced that the Xilinx Virtex®-7 FPGA, Kintex-7 FPGA and Zynq-7000 EPP evaluation kits are using SiTime’s programmable high performance MEMS oscillators.

Xilinx uses SiTime’s SiT9102 differential oscillator as the system clock and the SiT8102 oscillator as the HDMI reference clock on the Virtex-7 FPGA VC707 Evaluation Kit and the Kintex-7 FPGA KC705 Evaluation Kit. In addition, the Zynq-7000 dual ARM processor evaluation kit uses the same two oscillators plus an additional SiT8103 single-ended oscillator.

“Xilinx is committed to providing
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SiTime Ships 100 Million Units of its MEMS Timing Solutions

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:07:13 GMT

800 Customers, 100 Applications Drive Rapid Growth

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SUNNYVALE, Calif. – April 30, 2012 – SiTime Corporation, an analog semiconductor company that is revolutionizing the $6 billion timing market with silicon MEMS solutions, today announced that cumulative shipments of its MEMS oscillators, clock generators and resonators have exceeded 100 million units. Over 800 electronics companies have adopted SiTime’s Silicon MEMS timing solutions in more than 100 unique applications.

“SiTime’s unique MEMS and analog technology is transforming the decades-old timing industry with revolutionary products that offer unsurpassed performance, flexibility and reliability,” said Rajesh Vashist, CEO of SiTime. “Our silicon-based technology has enabled dramatic advances in performance that have not been replicated by the quartz industry. Today, our products are
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SiTime Differential Oscillators Recognized by Prestigious UBM Electronics ACE Awards

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 05:28:34 GMT

SiT912x Differential Oscillators Named Finalist in Analog IC Ultimate Products Category

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SUNNYVALE, Calif. – February 22, 2012 – SiTime Corporation, an analog semiconductor company, announced that its SiT912x differential oscillators were selected as a finalist in the EE Times and EDN 2012 UBM Electronics ACE Awards in the Analog IC Ultimate Products category. The awards program honors the people and companies behind the technologies and products that are changing the world of electronics.

“SiTime introduced the first production MEMS oscillator in 2006, an event which fundamentally changed the timing industry. Previously, quartz and semiconductor companies respectively owned the expertise of passive resonators and active analog timing circuits; today, SiTime is shipping both passive resonators and active oscillators and
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SiTime Breaks into High-Precision OCXO Timing with Stratum 3 Solutions

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:50:49 GMT

World's Smallest ±100 PPB Oscillators Consume One-Tenth the Power of OCXOs

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SUNNYVALE, Calif. – November 15, 2011 – SiTime Corporation, an analog semiconductor company, today introduced the SiT530x family of Stratum 3 compliant silicon MEMS timing solutions that replace OCXOs and TCXOs. The SiT5301 and SiT5302 are targeted at telecom and networking infrastructure such as SONET and Synchronous Ethernet based core and edge routers, wireless base stations, IP timing and smart grid applications. The SiT530x family uniquely combines Stratum 3 stability with small size, low voltage operation and programmable features that allows customers to quickly and easily customize and differentiate their products.

"SiTime's revolutionary technology integrates
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