Expanding Access to to Practical Local AI Inference on AI PCs
Phison Electronics (8299TT), a global leader in NAND flash controllers and storage solutions, today announced that its latest Pascari aiDAPTIV AI PC turbo-inference solution has received a Category Award at the COMPUTEX 2026 Best Choice Award (BC Award). Phison extends its sincere appreciation to the organizers, Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) and Taipei Computer Association (TCA), as well as the distinguished judging panel for their recognition and support. The award highlights Phison’s continued innovation in AI storage and AI inference technologies, while further reinforcing Taiwan’s growing influence within the global AI ecosystem.
As generative AI and agentic AI continue to rapidly evolve, demand for AI inference is growing exponentially. However, AI deployment still faces several major challenges, including cost-prohibitive hardware, power consumption constraints, data privacy concerns and inference efficiency limitations. As AI applications increasingly shift from cloud-centric environments toward edge devices and on-premises deployments, the industry is seeking solutions capable of delivering efficient, low-latency and secure AI inference solutions utilizing limited hardware resources.
aiDAPTIV is designed to address these emerging market demands and technical challenges by helping extend effective AI memory on AI PCs, enabling systems to support larger and more capable local AI inference workloads. The solution utilizes Phison’s Pascari AI flash storage technologies, including dedicated aiDAPTIV cache memory drives and hybrid storage-plus-cache SSDs such as the Pascari AI20EH. These capabilities help expand access to local AI by enabling more cost-efficient and practical computing environments.
As AI inference workloads continue to expand, energy efficiency and sustainable infrastructure deployment are also becoming increasingly important across the industry. Phison remains committed to leveraging innovative storage and AI technologies to help organizations deploy AI infrastructure more efficiently, reduce overall system resource consumption, and lower the barriers to AI adoption.
Phison will officially unveil its aiDAPTIV AI PC solution globally on June 2, 2026, the opening day of COMPUTEX 2026. Visitors attending COMPUTEX are invited to visit Phison’s booth（TaiNEX Hall 1, Booth M0411a to experience the company’s latest AI and intelligent storage innovations firsthand and learn more about the future of AI inference technologies.