Category: Press Releases

November 27, 2025

Phison Electronics (8299TT), the world’s largest independent supplier of NAND flash controllers and NAND storage solutions, today (11/27) announced that its self-designed E28—the world’s first 6nm AI-computing SSD solution featuring a breakthrough architecture—has been awarded the 2026 Taiwan Excellence Gold Award. This recognition highlights Phison’s leadership in AI storage and edge-AI-computing architectures and underscores Taiwan’s rising influence in the global AI technology landscape.

Built on Phison’s proprietary architecture, the E28 tightly integrates the SSD with the GPU, enabling the SSD to directly extend GPU memory capacity. This approach effectively overcomes the memory bottlenecks commonly faced in edge-AI training and allows enterprises to train generative AI (GenAI) models securely and efficiently on-premises—significantly reducing reliance on costly AI memory.

This innovation establishes the E28 as a new class of “AI-computing SSD,” designed to make localized AI training more affordable while ensuring both data privacy and computing performance. The E28 is especially suited for on-premise training (post-training) of specialized datasets and domain-specific models across sectors such as technology, manufacturing, finance, education, and healthcare, as well as fields requiring deep professional knowledge—law, accounting, patent agencies, scientific research, engineering, and medical analysis—empowering organizations to “train their own models with their own data.”

Phison has showcased E28’s architectural advantages at major international events including COMPUTEX, CES, and FMS. The product also won the Best Choice Award (Gold) at COMPUTEX 2025. In addition, the E28 has passed evaluation under the Ministry of Economic Affairs’ “Chip-based Industrial Innovation Program,” demonstrating strong governmental recognition of its technical innovation and industry impact. Phison is also working to bring the E28 into universities to cultivate next-generation AI talent, enabling edge-AI capabilities to expand from enterprises into education and broader society.

K.S. Pua, Founder and CEO of Phison Electronics, stated: “Winning the 2026 Taiwan Excellence Gold Award is a milestone achievement for Phison’s long-term investment in edge-AI innovation. We sincerely appreciate the Taiwan Excellence jury for recognizing our efforts. As global AI adoption accelerates, enterprises everywhere face three major challenges: cost, complexity, and data security. The E28’s AI-computing SSD architecture enables cost-efficient model fine-tuning and inference acceleration at the edge, helping industries finally bring AI into real-world deployment.”

K.S. Pua further added: “The true value of AI lies in empowering enterprises to securely control their own data and models. With Phison E28, businesses can fine-tune their domain-specific models more flexibly, independently, and cost-effectively—while seamlessly integrating with existing PC or workstation platforms and boosting inference performance. Moving forward, Phison will continue advancing edge-AI storage technologies, collaborating with Taiwan’s robust supply chain and global partners to accelerate the adoption of edge-AI applications and ensure AI delivers real benefits across industries.”

Category: Press Releases

November 18, 2025

• 2025

New PASCARI enterprise SSDs and demonstration of aiDAPTIV+ AI Agents running on an integrated GPU (iGPU) powering AI and HPC from client to cloud

St. Louis, MO — November 18, 2025 — Phison Electronics (8299TT), a global leader in NAND flash controllers and storage solutions, today announced its next-generation PCIe Gen5 enterprise SSDs, the Pascari X201 and Pascari D201, and a demonstration of AI agents running on a laptop PC powered by an integrated GPU and Phison aiDAPTIV+ GPU memory extension technology. Together, these innovations deliver the performance needed to power AI workloads for IT departments and universities all the way through to hyperscalers and enterprise data centers.

As data volumes and AI compute demands soar, enterprises need storage that delivers consistent low latency, predictable QoS, and efficiency at scale. Meanwhile, IT departments and universities face the challenges of early AI adoption and defining ROI. Phison addresses these requirements with the Pascari X201, built to accelerate data-intensive workloads, and the Pascari D201, providing density-optimized performance for cloud and object storage clusters. On the client side, aiDAPTIV+ brings AI to a broader audience by enabling powerful inference-based AI agents to run on iGPU-based laptop and desktop PCs, driving productivity in corporate environments and expanding AI learning opportunities for students.

This product suite expansion follows the cutting-edge, high-capacity Pascari D205V Gen5 PCIe 122.88TB launch, currently shipping to select OEM customers and delivering a unique E3.L form factor. These innovations paved the way for the next iteration of leading capacity up to 245TB coming to the Pascari portfolio.

“Every sector of the modern economy is on some phase of the AI journey, from awareness or early adoption to large-scale deployment, and storage is vital at every stage,” said Michael Wu, GM and President of Phison US. “Phison integrates controller, firmware and IP development under one roof to deliver purpose-built storage solutions for each use case. This offers customers the performance, capacity, and scale to achieve real ROI with AI, whether you are just beginning to train or operating an enterprise data center”

“AI and high-performance computing are transforming how enterprises approach infrastructure, from endpoints to data centers,” said Jeff Janukowicz, Research Vice President at IDC. “The demand for low-latency, power-efficient storage that can seamlessly scale across training, inference, and data management has become a strategic priority. Companies like Phison, with their Pascari enterprise SSD portfolio and aiDAPTIV+ technology, are addressing a critical market need by delivering predictable, high-efficiency performance for both AI and traditional workloads.”

Check out the array of products at Phison booth 4532 on the show floor at SC25 from November 17 – 20, 2025, including:

Pascari X201 Enterprise SSD - Engineered for the World’s Fastest Data

The Pascari X201 enterprise SSD is engineered for the fastest workloads, including AI training, large-scale analytics, high-frequency trading and HPC. It pushes the limits of PCIe Gen5 to deliver exceptional throughput, ultra-low latency and power-efficient reliability for data-intensive enterprise applications.

• Interface: PCIe Gen5
• Sequential performance: up to 14.5 GB/s read, up to 12 GB/s write
• Random performance (read/write): up to 3300K / up to 1050K IOPS
• Capacities: Up to 30.72 TB
• Endurance options: 1 DWPD or 3 DWPD
• Form factor: U.2 and E3.S
• Controller & firmware: Phison in-house architecture for predictable QoS and power efficiency

Pascari D201 Enterprise SSD - Cloud-Scale Capacity Meets Gen5 Speed

The Pascari D201 enterprise SSD is built for density-driven hyperscale and cloud environments, combining Gen5 speed with Phison’s enterprise reliability to deliver exceptional efficiency and performance for large-scale data operations such as cloud object storage, database clusters, content delivery, and data-center consolidation.

• Interface: PCIe Gen5
• Sequential performance: up to 14.5 GB/s read, up to 12 GB/s write
• Random performance (read/write): up to 3300K / up to 1050K IOPS
• Capacities: Up to 15.36 TB
• Form factor: E1.S 15 mm
• Endurance options: 1 DWPD or 3 DWPD

aiDAPTIV+ iGPU – Accelerate AI Agent performance

iGPU-based laptops and desktop PCs running AI agents transform AI from a novelty for early adopters into an essential productivity tool for corporate IT teams and a powerful platform for university students to learn and experiment with AI-driven automation.

• Designed for AI agents running on iGPU-based laptops and desktop PCs using aiDAPTIV+
• Delivers up to 25× faster performance for popular AI agent applications
• Reduces application response times from 73 seconds to just 4 seconds, such as using GenAI inference chat with YouTube movie content

Initial shipments of the Pascari X201 and D201 enterprise SSDs will be available to select enterprise customers and OEM partners by the end of the year. iGPU-based PCs with aiDAPTIV+ technology are in implementation with OEM partners for release in early 2026. Explore the Intel Innovation Pass program at SC25 to learn more.

To explore Phison’s full portfolio, please visit www.phison.com.

Category: Press Releases

October 29, 2025

• 2025

Washington D.C. — October 28, 2025 — Phison Electronics (8299TT), a global leader in NAND flash and AI infrastructure technologies, and RedData, an RPI-CS, Inc. division, today announced the availability of Phison’s aiDAPTIV+ GPU memory extension technology integrated into RedData’s secure solutions for U.S. Federal classified programs.

Following the recent release of America's AI Action Plan, many federal agencies and system integrators are faced with implementing AI infrastructure using secure and future-proof methodologies. The collaboration between Phison and RedData addresses these critical requirements for affordable, secure, on-premises AI infrastructure within government use cases, the intelligence community and national labs. By leveraging Phison’s aiDAPTIV+ AI solution, Federal agencies can affordably accelerate inference and scale large language model (LLM) training while maintaining compliance with classified environment requirements.

Federal agencies face unique challenges deploying AI due to security, compliance, and the prohibitive cost of scaling GPU card-only systems. Phison’s aiDAPTIV+ addresses these challenges by extending GPU memory with high-capacity NAND-flash-based caching, enabling:

• On-premises, classified AI deployment without reliance on commercial public cloud.
• Expanded LLM training capabilities supporting models up to 671B parameters.
• Faster inference response accelerates Agentic AI applications through quicker time-to-first-token (TTFT) when the GPU’s KV cache is full.
• Reduced AI infrastructure costs by expanding GPU VRAM with budget-friendly NAND-flash based memory.

By combining Phison’s technology and RedData’s AI platforms, this solution delivers a private, cost-effective path for agencies to operationalize AI in mission-critical programs.

“aiDAPTIV+ was engineered to unlock the full potential of GPUs by using NAND flash storage to break through memory constraints,” said Michael Wu, GM and President, Phison US. “In partnership with RedData, we are bringing this capability directly to U.S. Federal customers who require secure, classified AI environments.”

“Our government customers are seeking practical, deployable solutions to enable AI in their most sensitive missions,” said Bill Downer, Vice President of Sales, RedData. “By integrating Phison’s aiDAPTIV+ into RedData’s secure platforms, we’re empowering agencies to train and deploy larger AI models while meeting stringent classified requirements.”

Phison aiDAPTIV+-based RedData solutions will be showcased at NVIDIA GTC D.C. (October 27–29, 2025) in booth #667 and are available immediately for U.S. Federal classified program deployments.

About RedData Technologies

RedData, a division of RPI-CS, Inc., is a one-stop shop for secure data storage devices and systems. We specialize in developing commercially viable solutions that meet our customers' strict security requirements, with a focus on Commercial Solutions for Classified (CSfC) environments. Our product portfolio features a diverse selection of certified Self-Encrypting Drives (SEDs) from leading manufacturers. By working closely with customers and manufacturers from the design phase onward, we integrate additional capabilities and enhancements to meet data security needs. Our team has decades of experience in the storage industry and data-at-rest security, ensuring we deliver robust and reliable solutions.

About Phison Electronics

Phison Electronics is a global leader in NAND flash controllers and storage solutions, powering more than one in every five SSDs shipped worldwide. Phison has grown into a multi-billion-dollar company with over 4,500 employees—70% of which are dedicated to R&D – and more than 2,000 patents. The company’s innovations include aiDAPTIV+, an award-winning AI solution for affordable LLM training and inferencing on-premises, and Pascari, a portfolio of ultra-high-performance enterprise SSDs purpose-built for data-intensive workloads across AI, cloud, and hyperscale data centers.

Phison, the Phison design, the Phison logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of Phison Electronics or its affiliates in the US and/or other countries. All other marks are the property of their respective owners. Product specifications subject to change without notice. Pictures shown may vary from actual products.

Category: Press Releases

August 25, 2025

This is Phison’s official statement to partners regarding the recent media reports about a Microsoft issue that potentially corrupts storage devices.

Phison has recently been made aware of the industry-wide effects of the 'KB5063878' and ‘KB5062660’ updates on Windows 11 that potentially impacted several storage devices, including some supported by Phison. We understand the disruption this may have caused and promptly engaged industry stakeholders to review. 

We are steadfast in our commitment to product integrity and the success of our partners and end users. At this time, the controllers that may have been affected are under review, and we do not recommend adjustments to product distribution. We will continue to provide real-time updates and advisories to partners who may have been impacted. For any questions, please contact your sales representative.

To investigate, Phison dedicated over 4,500 cumulative testing hours across the drives reported as potentially impacted and conducted over 2200 test cycles. We were not able to reproduce the reported issue and no partners or customers have reported that the issue impacted their drives at this time. Phison remains committed to the highest standards of reliability and continues to closely monitor the situation in collaboration with our industry partners.

Best Practices for End Users
While our validation testing has not identified any concerns related to these Windows 11 updates, we have shared industry best practices to support high-performance storage devices. We continue to advise that for extended workloads, such as when transferring large files or decompressing large archives, users ensure a proper heatsink or thermal pad is utilized with the storage device. This helps maintain optimal operating temperatures, reduces the likelihood of thermal throttling and ensures sustained performance.

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