SiTime Corporation, a precision timing solutions company, continues to advance precision timing technology with integrated clock chips for AI data centers.

CyTime announced the launch of its ChorusTM family of clock generators for AI data center applications.

This new family of MEMS-based clock system-on-chip (ClkSoC) products offers up to a tenfold increase in performance compared to standalone oscillators and clocks, while being half the size.

Chorus integrates clock, oscillator, and resonator technology into a single chip, simplifying system clock architecture and reducing design time by up to six weeks.

SiTime plans to strengthen its strategy of combining the timing products of its recently acquired Aura Semiconductor with Chorus products to provide a complete portfolio of highly differentiated solutions.

According to a recent Bloomberg Intelligence report, the AI data center hardware market is growing at a rate of about 33% annually and is expected to reach approximately $200 billion by 2027.

Additionally, it was revealed that a rapid upgrade cycle of AI hardware is essential for running data- and compute-intensive AI tasks.

Piyush Sevalia of Cytime) Senior Vice President of Marketing said, “With AI, the demand for data center throughput and power consumption is growing exponentially. SiTime is uniquely positioned to solve these problems. Previously, hardware designers had to combine multiple components such as clocks, oscillators, and resonators, which limited performance. However, Chorus has solved this problem by integrating all of these functions into a single chip, and our proprietary technology is driving innovation in the timing market.”

Featuring an integrated MEMS resonator, Chorus overcomes the limitations of conventional clock generators, eliminating issues such as noise and matching the resonator's impedance to the clock. Furthermore, it replaces up to four independent oscillators, reducing timing board space by up to 50%. Chorus is ideal for data center devices such as servers, switches, accelerator cards, and smart NICs.

“SiTime continues to solve the electronics industry’s toughest timing challenges with advancements in silicon MEMS timing technology,” said Dave Altavilla, co-founder, president and principal analyst at HotTech Vision & Analysis. “SiTime’s new family of MEMS-based clock generators represents a significant advancement that significantly enhances the high performance, reliability and integration required for large-scale AI data centers.”