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SSan Jose – January 30, 2024 – Phison Electronics (8299TT), a leading provider of NAND controllers and NAND storage solutions, today announced it has introduced a full range of UFS (Universal Flash Storage) controllers (PS8325, PS8327, PS8329, PS8361). Phison’s new UFS solutions support entry-level, middle, premium and flagship smartphone devices to achieve maximum performance in mobile storage and enhance user experiences.

As smartphone devices require higher performance, the storage devices of many entry-level 5G models have transitioned from eMMC to UFS 2.2 storage, and even flagship models of 4G phones have begun adopting the UFS 2.2 specification. Compared to the half-duplex mode of eMMC, the full-duplex mode of UFS 2.2 significantly increases read speeds by three times, not only handling smartphone functions that require processing large amounts of data (such as high-resolution recording and video playback), but also consuming lower power under the same performance speed as eMMC. This helps improve the battery life of smartphones and tablets, meeting the high-performance and low-power consumption needs of mobile devices.

In response to the evolving storage requirements of smartphones, Phison has introduced the cost-effective UFS 2.2 controller PS8327, offering the highest performance-to-cost ratio in history to meet the growing demand for high-speed mobile storage. Utilizing a 22nm process, PS8327 is the smallest UFS 2.2 controller, achieving speeds of 1000MB/s even with NAND Flash capacity as low as 64GB storage. Phison’s comprehensive suite of UFS storage solutions provide many advantages, including cost-effectiveness, performance, and low power consumption for mobile devices.

Additionally, PS8327 features Phison's in-house sixth-generation LDPC ECC engine, providing more reliable and powerful error correction capabilities. It supports existing NAND FLASH requirements from various NAND manufacturers and is expected to support next-generation NAND product specifications.

“With over a decade of research and development experience in the UFS field, Phison has established credible expertise in the development, validation, and technical capabilities of NAND controllers, said K.S. Pua, CEO of Phison. “PS8327 represents the culmination of Phison's decade experience of UFS research and development that has garnered significant industry praise. Coupled with Phison's track record of having numerous UFS storage solutions validated by major smartphone chipset suppliers, PS8327 was quickly adopted and deployed by prominent NAND manufacturers upon its release. It is anticipated that mobile devices equipped with Phison's PS8327 UFS storage solution will be highly competitive in the market.”

In addition to PS8327, Phison is debuting four UFS controllers this year: PS8325, PS8327, PS8329 and PS8361. The new lineup comprehensively upgrades the competitiveness of its existing UFS product line. From entry-level to flagship smartphones, each category has an optimal UFS storage solution to meet all consumer needs.

  • UFS 3.1 PS8325: Catering to high-end smartphones, PS8325 features TSMC's 12nm process and a dual-channel design supporting the latest 1TB NAND from various NAND manufacturers for a total capacity of 1TB. Additionally, PS8325 boasts Phison's self-developed 4KB LDPC error correction engine, providing advanced and powerful ECC error correction capabilities, significantly enhancing the stability and lifespan of smartphone storages. PS8325 has already secured design wins from many international leading smartphone manufacturers and is expected to start mass production in the first quarter of this year.
  • UFS 3.1 PS8329: Focuses on the mid-range smartphone market. Using a 22nm process, PS8329 is the smallest UFS 3.1 controller in the market and can PS8329 achieve read and write speeds exceeding 2000MB/s through a single-channel configuration. Additionally, the 4K LDPC ECC error correction engine provides outstanding compatibility and performance with next-generation NAND Flash. PS8329 is planned to begin sampling in June of this year.
  • UFS 4.0 PS8361: Targets the highest specifications of the flagship smartphone market. Key features include TSMC's 12nm process and a 4-channel design, read and write speeds of PS8361 exceeding 4000MB/s, twice the performance of UFS 3.1, fulfilling high-speed data transfer requirements of its category, delivering quick app launches, multitasking, etc., significantly reducing wait times for loading applications and providing consumers with the most seamless experience. At the same time, the improved power efficiency of PS8361 will effectively extend the battery life of mobile devices. PS8361 has already been designated for use by NAND manufacturers and is expected to begin shipping in the second half of this year.

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Phison Takes the Lead in Every Consumer Category with Renowned Data Reliability, Low-Power and High-Speed Performance for Desktop, Notebook, and Portable Gaming

 

San Jose – January 8, 2024 - Phison Electronics Corp., a global leader in NAND flash controller and storage solutions, today announced new product demonstrations of best-in-class PCIe 5.0 and PCIe 4.0 devices at CES 2024 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Phison continues to push the boundaries of low-power high performance across all platforms from enterprise NAND flash storage to portable handheld gaming system upgrades.

“Phison’s technology leads the industry and the next generation of class-leaders is on full display at International CES 2024. Whether you’re reducing application load times with I/O+ Technology and E27T 2230 for portable gaming devices like Steam Deck or pushing the limits of PCIe Gen5 performance with E26, Phison has what you need,” said Michael Wu, President and General Manager, Phison US. “The next battleground for PCIe Gen5 is mainstream desktops and notebooks where the new E31T 4-channel DRAMless controller will revolutionize the market with 10GB/s performance without additional heatsinks and cooling requirements.”

At CES 2024, Phison will showcase the industry’s most powerful solutions designed to address the need for low-power data storage and NAND storage solutions.

  • Phison PS5031-E31T: Low-Power PCIe 5.0 controller with a 4-channel DRAMless design offering up to 10.8GB/s performance and 8TB maximum capacity
  • Phison PS5026-E26 Max14um: For increased capacity and accelerated performance, the PCIe 5.0 E26 controller with I/O+ Technology is the most powerful device in its class, with 14GB/s+ sequential read performance and over 1000MB/s in all PCMark 10 and 3DMark Storage Tests - A World's First!
  • Phison PS5027-E27T: The next generation in low-power, high-performance PCIe Gen4 SSD in a 2230 form factor optimized to reduce game load times in portable gaming devices like Steam Deck, Ally, and Legion Go
  • Phison PS2251-21 (U21): The world's first USB4 single-chip solution suited for small portable devices in conventional and unconventional form factors with up to 4GB/s performance in the palm of your hand

“We had a great year of collaboration with Phison in 2023, including our ‘Power of Five Ecosystem’ project involving several industry partners that brought innovative new technologies to market like DDR5, AM5, and PCIe Gen5 SSDs,” said Dinesh Bahal, corporate vice president and general manager of Micron’s Commercial Products Group. “Crucial and Phison worked together to deliver best-in-class new products such as the Crucial T500 SSD, and the world’s fastest consumer SSD, the Crucial T700 Gen5 SSD.”

Visit Phison’s CES2024 event page to find out more here. For more information on Phison and its complete line of products, please visit www.phison.com/en/. To access Phison’s blog, visit phisonblog.com/.

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Phison’s E22T is a Customizable SSD Platform Delivering Best-In-Class Performance, Next-Gen. of Features and Increased Storage Density for Automotive Storage Systems

Phison Automotive PCIe 4.0 E22T SSD Solution Received 2024 Taiwan Excellence Award

Taiwan, December 6, 2023 – Phison Electronics Corp. (TPEX: 8299), a global leader in NAND flash controller and storage solutions, announced that its latest automotive PCIe 4.0 E22T SSD solution was awarded the 2024 Taiwan Excellence Award.

“We are very pleased that Phison’s automotive PCIe 4.0 E22T SSD solution has received this honor,” said C.S. Ma, President of Phison. “For Taiwanese products, the mark of Taiwan Excellence is associated with innovative values that are renowned in the international market for excellence and quality.”

The Taiwan Excellence Awards were established by the Ministry of Economic Affairs of Taiwan in 1993. Every year, eligible candidates are subjected to a rigorous and stringent selection system that covers four major aspects of R&D, Design, Quality, and Marketing to identify outstanding products that offer “Innovative Value” while satisfying the key criterion of being “made in Taiwan.” Products that have been selected for the Taiwan Excellence Awards will serve as domestic industry examples while being promoted by the government in the international market to shape the creative image for Taiwanese businesses.

Phison's PCIe 4.0 SSD E22T solution is a customizable automotive SSD controller built on a 12nm process. Its peak sequential and random read/write performance can reach up to 7000 MB/s and 1000K IOPS, respectively. The controller is designed to operate within a temperature range of -40°C to 95°C, effectively shouldering the responsibility of data storage in demanding automotive systems,” said Ma. “In addition, the automotive E22T storage solution from Phison is compatible with ASIL-B automotive safety levels and supports next-generation automotive storage specifications such as SRIOV and Dual-Port and offers a maximum capacity of 2TB. It is believed that in the future, this solution will meet the diverse storage architecture needs of various automotive systems, including electric vehicles.”

Phison Automotive PCIe 4.0 E22T SSD Solution Received 2024 Taiwan Excellence Award

For more information on Phison’s E22T 2023 Taiwan Excellence Award, please visit:
https://www.taiwanexcellence.org/tw/award/product/1130151


For more information on the Automotive E22T, please visit:
https://www.phison.com/images/products_datasheet/ProductBrochure_Embedded_PS5022-E22T_20231129.pdf

 

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Delivering a Holistic Vision for Modern Data Performance, Phison Becomes the Only Provider to Offer PCIe 5.0, CXL 2.0 Compatible Retimer and Redriver Signal Integrity Solutions and PCIe 5.0 Enterprise SSDs

SAN JOSE, Calif. – October 16, 2023 – Phison Electronics (8299 TT), a global leader in NAND controllers and storage solutions, announced today that the company has expanded its portfolio of PCIe 5.0 high-speed transmission solutions with PCIe 5.0, CXL 2.0 compatible redriver and retimer data signal conditioning IC products. Leveraging the company’s deep expertise in PCIe engineering, Phison is the only signal conditioners provider that offers the widest portfolio of multi-channel PCIe 5.0 redriver and retimer solutions and PCIe 5.0 storage solutions designed specifically to meet the data infrastructure demands of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI+ML), edge computing, high-performance computing, and other data-intensive, next-gen applications. At the 2023 Open Compute Project Global Summit, the Phison team is showcasing its expansive PCIe 5.0 portfolio, demonstrating the redriver and retimer technologies alongside other enterprise NAND flash, illustrating a holistic vision for a PCIe 5.0 data ecosystem to address the most demanding applications of the AI-everywhere era. 

“Phison has focused industry-leading R&D efforts on developing in-house, chip-to-chip communication technologies since the introduction of the PCIe 3.0 protocol, with PCIe 4.0 and PCIe 5.0 solutions now in mass production, and PCIe 6.0 solutions now in the design phase,” said Michael Wu, President & General Manager, Phison US. “Phison’s accumulated experience in high-speed signaling enables our team to deliver retimer and redriver design solutions that are optimized for top signal integration, low power usage, and high temperature endurance, to deliver interface speeds for the most challenging compute environments.” 

 

Phison's PCIe 5.0 Retimers PS7201 and PS7202

Emerging high-speed interconnect protocols like PCIe 5.0 and CXL 2.0 are driving the need for a new generation of signal conditioning solutions. Phison's PS7201 and PS7202 retimer solutions are designed to meet the growing demand for data performance, and follow industry standard retimer footprints. Phison retimer solutions also offer distinctive features such as: 

  • Advanced signal enhancement for all PCIe-deployed devices, including NAND flash, GPU, CPU, FPGA, ASIC, DPU, and other accelerator technologies
  • High EQ boosting range up to 42dB
  • Integrated AC coupling capacitors
  • CXL 2.0 compatibility 
  • Low latency of 5ns
  • Hot plug and bifurcation support
  • Pin-to-pin compatibility with competing solutions
  • Protocol awareness accommodates various system configurations, suitable for a wide range of industries and applications
  • The Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) delivers user-friendly diagnostic tool and standard C-SDK to support real-time monitoring for local and remote management and provide users with the utmost confidence in their system's performance

 

Phison’s PCIe 5.0 Redrivers PS7102 and PS7103 with PHiTUNE software

All of Phison’s Redriver solutions are certified by PCI-SIG, the consortium that owns and manages PCI specifications as open industry standards. In addition to Phison’s redriver solutions, Phison is the only provider of a full line of multi-lane redrivers, including: 

  • Advanced signal enhancement for all PCIe-deployed devices
  • Up to 28.5dB equalization range
  • Low latency of 70ps
  • CXL 2.0 compatibility
  • PS7101 2-lane redriver, with Mux/Demux capabilities
  • PS7102 8-channel redriver 
  • PS7103 16-lane redriver
  • Pin to pin compatibility with competing solutions

 

Leveraging the company’s expertise and IP in both PCIe 5.0 signal conditioning and end device PCIe 5.0 NAND flash solutions, Phison is the only provider in the industry to offer its exclusive auto tuning tool PHiTUNE for its redrivers. Pairing Phison’s PHiTUNE software with the Phison E26 PCIe Gen5 SSD, Phison redriver solutions automatically detect recovery counts. The software then uses artificial intelligence to determine the optimal gain parameters to be stored in the Redriver’s onboard non-volatile memory in the customer’s R&D environment. This unique tool enables R&D engineers to collect signal data and conduct signal optimization to find the best parameters for the corresponding environment automatically in about 30 minutes.

Other unique features delivered by Phison redrivers include: 

  • Support for unique I2C modes of operation enables system R&D engineers to independently tune parameters depending on hi/low frequency for different cable or PCB materials to achieve the best compensation for signal attenuation (PS7102 and PS7103)
  • Support for linearity up to 1200mVpp, allowing for more accurate signal transmission and reception than competing products 
  • Phison’s linear swing feature for its redriver solutions reduces waveform disturbances and improves overall signal quality
  • EQ boosting range up to 28.5 dB to provide improved signal extension capabilities in comparison to competing solutions  

 

Industry-leading Partners Converge to Provide a Holistic AI Infrastructure

Already in deployment in both Intel- and AMD-based platforms, Phison partners and customers are expressing excitement about Phison’s PCIe retimer and redriver signal integrity solutions as part of Phison’s wider PCIe 5.0 data ecosystem. 

"Thanks to Phison for providing the exclusive PHiTUNE tool, which enables us to quickly deploy and integrate ASRock Rack motherboards with the Phison PS7101 Redriver IC, ensuring stability and integrity in high-speed signal transmission," said Weishi Sa, President, ASRock Rack. “ASRock Rack has always been committed to providing high-performance and reliable server and workstation systems as well as motherboards. We are delighted that Phison's Redriver IC contributes to achieving this goal in collaboration with ASRock Rack. We look forward to further cooperation between our two companies in the future.”

“Phison’s PCIe 5.0 Redriver IC PS7101 is an exciting high-speed transmission innovation,” said Daniel Hou, CEO of Giga Computing. “It provides servers with more flexible parameters to solve the signal attenuation problem, enabling Giga Computing to offer users a versatile server capable of handling various computational workloads. Through Phison's PHiTUNE tool, we can quickly enhance the support of GIGABYTE’s servers for different PCIe 5.0 components, meeting the requirements for seamless signal transmission and accelerating the launch of our server products. In the future, we also look forward to continued partnership between Giga Computing and Phison.”

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Phison Demonstrates a Suite of Flash Solutions to Deliver Custom Optimizations for Artificial Intelligence Workloads Across the Global Digital Topography

Phison IMAGIN+ the Possibilities in NAND flash storage at FMS 2023

SAN JOSE, Calif. – August 8, 2023 – Phison Electronics (8299 TT), a global leader in NAND flash and storage solutions, announces a technology demonstration of unique customer-based solutions fully realized through the IMAGIN+ customization service at Flash Memory Summit 2023.

Phison has expanded its IMAGIN+ design service to include AI computational models and AI services solutions. Customers work with specialized Phison teams to design and engineer custom flash deployments that precisely address the data performance and endurance  requirements of next generation products including those highly optimized for aiDAPTIV AI+ML workloads. With IMAGIN+ design services, Phison teams work hand-in-hand with customers to deliver AI-boosted SSD solutions that address demanding requirements.

FMS 2023 imagines the possibilities with Phison’s IMAGIN+ design platform

“At FMS this year, Phison is excited to showcase the IMAGIN+ fully customizable enterprise data performance solutions for PCIe Gen4 and Gen5 and to demonstrate our ultra-fast prosumer SSDs designed for high-IOPS applications,” said Michael Wu, President and General Manager, Phison US. “Whether you are building infrastructure for aiDAPTIV+ML, enterprise data center operations, edge compute, workstation, or gaming, Phison delivers industry-leading, performance-forward solutions for flash deployments. Our solutions offer low- latency and -power for maximum efficiency across a wide variety of use cases.” 

Flash Memory Summit attendees can schedule demonstrations of the following Phison solutions: 

Alliances for AI – IMAGIN+ AI for component manufacturing with GIGABYTE and Adlink 

  • First wave of collaboration between Phison, GIGABYTE, and Adlink
  • Computer vision AI developed by Phison
  • Customized AMD-based workstations by GIGABYTE and edge AI inference platforms by Adlink

Phison X2 - Our first enterprise PCIe Gen5 solution based on TSMC 12nm manufacturing 

  • Capacities up to 64TB RAW NAND
  • Up to 14.7GB/s sequential and industry leading random workload performance
  • Supporting U.2 and E3.S form factors
  • Unique Phison CPU architecture for best-in-class performance and efficient power utilization

E26 – Tune It to the Max14um with the ultimate E26 featuring advanced Frore Systems AirJet Technology 

  • Frore Systems and Phison collaborate to demonstrate the world’s fastest consumer SSD with over 1,000MB/s PCMark 10 Storage Test performance - A world’s first for a NAND-based M.2 SSD
  • Tuned to maximize the full bandwidth of PCIe Gen5 in our most power-efficient, high-performance model ever
  • E26 was built for 2400MT/s NAND and we show you what the potent combination is fully capable of with up to 14.7GB/s performance on tap for the most demanding games, CAD/CAM, and other data intensive workloads

E27T – One for the Road - Delivering on the promise of PCIe Gen4 storage in a highly efficient DRAMless design

  • Delivers on the promise of low-power Gen4 SSD performance for mobile devices
  • Gaming on the go, E27T is optimized for low-power consumption making it the best choice for notebook gaming
  • Business travelers demand low latency but also require long battery life - this is where E27T makes a difference
  • Low power edge compute requires industry leading endurance that is both low cost and highly reliable
  • Supports 2400MT/s and 3600MT/s memory bus - A world’s first for a client DRAMless SSD

The Phison PS5018-E18 pSLC Gen4 NVMe SSD –  Your 100% sustained workload leader 

  • Utilizes premium NAND in pSLC mode to deliver maximum sustained performance and endurance, up to 42 DWPD
  • High sustained read and write speeds for both sequential and random workloads
  • Custom tuning for environments such as AI+ML and RAID
  • Shown with Apex Storage X21 21-drive array used for AI+ML, high-frequency trading, and up to 168TB of data storage


Schedule a demonstration of Phison’s industry-leading flash memory solutions and learn more about its IMAGIN+ customization system, and start to imagine the possibilities with Phison’s IMAGIN+.

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  4. Phison Electronics Awarded Top 5% Ranking in Corporate Governance Evaluation Among TPEx-Listed Companies

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About Phison

Phison Electronics Corp. (TPEX:8299) is a global leader in NAND Flash controller IC and storage solutions. We provide a variety of services from controller design, system integration, IP licensing to total turnkey solutions, covering applications across SSD (PCIe/SATA/PATA), eMMC, UFS, SD and USB interfaces, reaching out to consumer, industrial and enterprise markets. As an active member of industry associations, Phison is on the Board of Directors for SDA, ONFI, UFSA and a contributor for JEDEC, PCI-SIG, MIPI, NVMe and IEEE-SA.