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.”