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Jim SchneiderAnalyst

Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to the Goldman Sachs Communacopia + Technology Conference. My name is Jim Schneider. I am the semiconductor analyst here at Goldman Sachs. It's my pleasure to welcome SiTime CEO, Rajesh Vashist, and CFO, Beth Howe, to the stage today. Welcome to you both. Thank you.

Jim SchneiderAnalyst

Thank you. Before we get started, the company has asked me to remind you that today's discussion includes forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties, and assumptions, which are further described herein SiTime's SEC filings, including SiTime's most recent Form 10-Q, and the actual results could vary materially and adversely from those anticipated or implied.

Jim SchneiderAnalyst

SiTime assumes no obligation and does not intend to update any such forward-looking statements. For more information, please visit SiTime's investor relations website at investor.sitime.com. That was quick. Yeah. Okay.

Jim SchneiderAnalyst

Let's start off on big picture strategy question. Rajesh, Beth, maybe start off with a brief view on the company, but specifically explain the role of precision timing, specifically MEMS-based timing in advanced applications, and what has been driving the shift away from quartz-based timing.

Rajesh VashistCEO

Yeah. To take a little bit of credit, about 20 years ago, we saw and believed that there was an increase in throughput, decrease in latency, decrease in phase noise, a tougher environment, and we felt that timing had to be a solution presented to customers. That was the bet we made, and that bet has proven true when we went public 2019, but it has become even more true in the last few years as the pace of innovation along those axes has increased so dramatically. Precision timing is essentially the heartbeat. It is the rising, it is literally a square wave, which shows up so that a CPU, a GPU, a TPU, a Wi-Fi, a wireless, a modem, or whatever other ASIC knows when to be on and when to not be on. And given the throughputs, given the rates, it becomes really important, really critical.

Rajesh VashistCEO

Yeah, so our most expensive chip, not in military application, sells for about $50. Our lowest price chip sells for around $0.35, $0.40.

Jim SchneiderAnalyst

Great. Okay, so now the CED segment that includes data center, represents the majority of your revenue now, I think 64% last quarter. Can you run through us the increasing importance of precision timing, specifically in data centers? What is the key driver for SiTime in terms of content and your outlook for that segment?

Rajesh VashistCEO

Right. In general, we grow in about four different ways. In general, we grow because the end customer units grow, easy. We grow because ASP grows, because functionality grows. We grow because the number of chips per unit of system grows. We also grow, of course, when we get new opportunities, new applications. The great thing about the data center AI business is that they are firing on all cylinders, and they are firing on all cylinders at a very high rate of innovation speed. We are in the GPU, the TPU, the CPU. We are along with the switches. We are sitting next to the NIC cards. We are in the smart cables. We are in the pluggable optical modules.

Rajesh VashistCEO

The new generations of these products are moving fast, and with our acquisition of the clocking business as well as our own roadmap, the revenue opportunities are growing dramatically in that segment. When we went public, we were probably in that space. There was no data center AI space, but there was a data center business which was around $800 million in SAM. Today, that would be probably close to $3 billion in SAM opportunity. So it is an amazing opportunity, but half our business is not in this space, as you indicated.

Rajesh VashistCEO

It is outside that. Yeah.

Jim SchneiderAnalyst

You recently completed the acquisition of the Renesas IC clock business. Can you maybe articulate the strategy behind why you decided to make that acquisition, and how that bolsters or augments your position in the market?

Rajesh VashistCEO

Yeah. We always knew we wanted a clocking business because it is a complement to the oscillator business we have. The oscillator business is generating the frequency. The clocking business is disseminating or spreading the frequency. In that business, we know that the best brand name, the best technology, the best team was in Renesas, which used to be IDT, which used to be ICS. So it is a 25 to 30 year history. That was the best business to buy, and we were fortunate that we were able to get that. It was the golden property, if you will.

Jim SchneiderAnalyst

Yeah. Now, longer term, how do you think about competition in the overall MEMS timing market? Because this is a category, as you mentioned, you created in many ways, but it is no longer small. This is a target now.

Jim SchneiderAnalyst

Right. How realistic is potential for new competitors to enter the market in a much more meaningful way?

Rajesh VashistCEO

While we have to give a lot of credit to our MEMS technology, our MEMS technology is really just a way of enabling precision timing. At the highest level, we are thinking of timing, precision timing, as a system solution, solving system problems for about 500 different applications. MEMS unlocks that, but we also have advances in digital design, analog design, packaging, testing, building an infrastructure. I see our 500, 600 engineers involved in all aspect of that. That makes us the biggest team, that makes us the most focused team. The best part is we are focused on the most innovative parts, the most differentiated parts of this business. We are not interested in a me-too part of this business. We want only the best parts, which has allowed us to go from 45% gross margins at IPO to 67% last quarter.

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