Audio Interview: The MEMS Answer to Replacing the Paperclip

Peter Singer, Editor-in-Chief -- Semiconductor International, 11/10/2006

At the MEMS Executive Congress in Scottsdale, Ariz., Editor-in-Chief Pete Singer talked with Joe Brown, cofounder and director of strategic alliances for SiTime, a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based fabless startup focused on replacing conventional quartz timing oscillators with a MEMS solution.
 
With a technology called MEMS First, the company builds a resonator in a way that it can be buried under the surface of a wafer. “So when we seal this, or encapsulate the MEMS tuning fork, we do it under high-temperature conditions,” Brown said. “And that’s the element that provides the performance for silicon to compete against quartz.”
 
Listen to the interview (Running time: 8:54)