Great work on these industry-specific interviews that highlight stuff that is equally as interesting yet would not normally get this level of attention. Keep it up, Ian! Edit: I cannot unsee the shirt duality.
I had a call with those guys, 4-something marketing/sales people on their side joined. They promised a price ($8), then quoted 10x ($80). The $8 million wafer they should call it, lol.
I'm looking forward to more reasonably priced clocks with accuracy in the 1E-12 range, which is outside this area for the time being. Hopefully they can get there. There's a whole lot of margin in those clocks, so it could be quite profitable for SiTime.
Wow, a few years ago there was a atomic clock pci-e card using a standard for time sync. I wonder if the SiTime ones could provide some advantages on the pc space as well. In a motherboard, to effectively increase the performance of the pci/usb/ram buses, reducing latency, increasing efficiency (and fps, ofc). Imagine one of these babies on a motherboard...
@@flashmozzg i think so that is why i was under the impression of mems devices being susceptible to the changes in air viscosity. Since they are physically moving parts the environment is important to their operation limitations. However i am not sure if that was related to the clock or not.
@@flashmozzgI was bitten by that- returned two “dead” iPhones under warranty and lost a lot of irreplaceable photos. But not so recent now, except in my mind. Apple “Geniuses” were totally unaware.
Boring interview. Because you do not show people where the money are. Here is not boring point for you: each 3-4nm TSMC wafer costs $20,000 for TSMC to produce. This one with older generation manufacturing process goes from everywhere probably for just $1000. That means each of these 100,000 processor chips costs ...1cent. Sold probably for a few dollars. More than a 100x profit ! Some is everywhere in this industry
If you're interested in the written version of this interview, check out open.substack.com/pub/morethanmoore/p/no-time-like-mems-time
"Great products are great because they sell themselves" Is a fantastic line
This is a fascinating 😮interview, I had no clue there's oscillators made from more pure silicon instead of quartz
SiTime stories is v inspiring. Rajesh Vassisht is a proper tech CEO
There's more chips on that wafer than there are in 1,000 cans of Pringles
about the same
Great knowledge
Great work on these industry-specific interviews that highlight stuff that is equally as interesting yet would not normally get this level of attention. Keep it up, Ian!
Edit: I cannot unsee the shirt duality.
I had a call with those guys, 4-something marketing/sales people on their side joined. They promised a price ($8), then quoted 10x ($80). The $8 million wafer they should call it, lol.
Hmm seems a only slightly fishy/pushy lol
Inspirational work and vision of Shri Rajesh Vashist. Very few companies/individuals dare to take a bet on niche products only.
100000 chips per wafer ?!
Talk to MicroLED engineers, they smile about that number 😅
Petition for Ian to go visit and interview an LED / MicroLED manufacturer!
I'm looking forward to more reasonably priced clocks with accuracy in the 1E-12 range, which is outside this area for the time being. Hopefully they can get there. There's a whole lot of margin in those clocks, so it could be quite profitable for SiTime.
I guess Rajesh might have been one of the few people to be happy that the Spruce Pine quartz mine got whacked…
Dr Cutress looks like Bane in the wafer reflection in the thumbnail.
Wow, a few years ago there was a atomic clock pci-e card using a standard for time sync. I wonder if the SiTime ones could provide some advantages on the pc space as well. In a motherboard, to effectively increase the performance of the pci/usb/ram buses, reducing latency, increasing efficiency (and fps, ofc). Imagine one of these babies on a motherboard...
I did a video or two on those! :)
Would help with online gaming a lot i guess
MEMS=micro eleoctromechanical DEVICES
Did Ian have a skinful last night?😅
He could definitely turn this into A Business/Businesses.
why are they labeled as OCXO and TCXO when the X traditionally stood for crystal
are these memclocks resilient against helium ?
That was a singular issue with one part a decade ago. Over a decade. Fixed relatively easily, never been a problem since.
@@TechTechPotato i did not know that. i was under the impression this was still an issue with some mems devices.
@@TechTechPotato Wasn't there a recent issue with some apple products after slight exposure to helium?
@@flashmozzg i think so that is why i was under the impression of mems devices being susceptible to the changes in air viscosity. Since they are physically moving parts the environment is important to their operation limitations. However i am not sure if that was related to the clock or not.
@@flashmozzgI was bitten by that- returned two “dead” iPhones under warranty and lost a lot of irreplaceable photos. But not so recent now, except in my mind. Apple “Geniuses” were totally unaware.
I like Indian names
re-upload?
Yeah, ironically had a timing issue on some of the camera angles :)
@@TechTechPotato haha :b
I wondered the same. Nice!
Are those which fail in helium?
less is better, would be more impressive
Boring interview. Because you do not show people where the money are.
Here is not boring point for you: each 3-4nm TSMC wafer costs $20,000 for TSMC to produce. This one with older generation manufacturing process goes from everywhere probably for just $1000. That means each of these 100,000 processor chips costs ...1cent. Sold probably for a few dollars. More than a 100x profit ! Some is everywhere in this industry
MEMS is an interesting technical subject. Money is talked about by primarily business channels.