SAN FRANCISCO, April 17 (Reuters) - SiTime ( SITM ) on

Wednesday introduced a chip that it says is designed to help

data centers built for artificial intelligence applications run

more efficiently.

SiTime ( SITM ) makes what are known as timing chips, whose job is

set a steady beat for all the parts of a computer and keep them

running together in sync, like a conductor in an orchestra

directing multiple groups of instruments. The company says its

new line of chips, called Chorus, can do so with 10 times more

precision than older styles of timing chips.

SiTime ( SITM ) CEO Rajesh Vashist said the company aims to help

customers save electricity with that precision. SiTime's ( SITM ) chips

themselves require less than a watt of power, but powerful AI

chips such as Nvidia's ( NVDA ) require more than 1,000 watts of

power.

With a more precise clock to keep all the elements of a

computer in sync, parts of the machine can be turned off for a

few milliseconds at a time when they are not in use. Over the

multiple years a power-hungry data center server might be in

use, it can generate energy savings, though the amount will

depend on how SiTime's ( SITM ) chips are used.

"We deliver timing that they can rely on so that they can

wake up their products and bring data more efficiently to them,

rather than just running more often," Vashist said in an

interview.

SiTime ( SITM ) said the chips will be available in the second half

of this year.