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January 11, 2021

• 2021

The NAND Flash industry has experienced the turmoil and the impact of COVID in 2020. PHISON (8299TT) not only delivered good operating results in 2020, but also continued to build an affiliated parking space building, expanding the recruitment of R&D talents, to follow this wave of growth in 2021.

The affiliated parking space building held a groundbreaking ceremony today (1/9), adding some highlights to this wave of COVID-19 haze. In addition, the fifth phase of the new building, which held groundbreaking on March 30, 2020, will also hold the beam-raising ceremony today. It is expected that the fifth phase new building to be completed and opened before the end of 2021 this year.

Continuing the planning of the fifth phase of the new building area, the affiliated parking space was built into a building with two underground floors and a ninth floor above the ground. The total investment amount exceeded NT$820 million. The total floor area is about 9,400 in Taiwanese ping space (=31074.52 square meters). It is planned to increase the use space of more than 1,000 people with corresponding parking area. It is expected that the affiliated parking space building to be completed and put into use before the end of the first half of 2022. The affiliated parking space building will realize the plan of having parking spaces for all employees of Phison, and it will also become a new welfare index for Zhunan Guangyuan Science Park where parking space is insufficient for a long time.

Groundbreaking Ceremony of Phison’s Affiliated Parking Space Building

In addition, the construction of the fifth phase of the new building has also entered the stage of beam-raising, where the whole building is expected to be completed before the end of 2021 this year. The fifth phase of the new building will increase the use of 13,000 in Taiwanese ping space (=42975.4 square meters), and it is estimated that 1,500 to 2,000 R&D engineers will be increased to continue to maintain Phison’s leading position as the world’s largest independent flash controller R&D center. If add the affiliated parking space building, the total used floor space will exceed 42,900 in Taiwanese ping space (=141818.82 square meters). This shows that Phison will not only continue to plan for the next growth momentum, but also declare the determination to continue to increase investment in Taiwan for sustainable operations.

Beam-Raising Ceremony of Phison’s Fifth Phase New Building

In his speech, K.S. Pua, Chairman and CEO of Phison, said that due to the impact of the COVID epidemic, the beam-raising and groundbreaking ceremony were held in a simple manner. In addition to inviting Miaoli County Deputy Mayor Kuei-Chu Teng/鄧桂菊, Taoyuan Mayor Wen-Tsan Cheng/鄭文燦, legislator Chih-Wei Chiu/邱志偉, Miaoli County Assembly Speaker Tung-Chin Chung/鍾東錦, and Miaoli County Police Chief Chun-Neng Weng/翁群能, the rest of the participants are basically Phison colleagues, hoping to reduce the chance of cluster infection of COVID by simplifying the ceremony and respond to the government's epidemic prevention measures.

K.S.Pua also emphasized that the epidemic has fundamentally changed the patterns of life and work around the world. The public has gradually become accustomed to the "New Normal" patterns such as remote work, video conferencing, and remote teaching; and "New Normal" lifestyle also continues to stimulate demand for cloud service applications, online video services, mobile devices, and gaming e-sports. These are the NAND storage application areas that Phison has continued to deploy in past years, and the main reason of why Phison continues to expand its R&D capabilities.

The average cost of constructing the affiliated parking space building is about NT$800,000 per parking space. In addition to solving the problem of illegal parking on the roadside caused by the lack of long-term parking spaces in the Guangyuan Science Park in Miaoli, it also hopes that all of Phison’s employee have a parking space, creating a new indicator of a happy enterprise.

K.S.Pua, Chairman and CEO of Phison Electronics, delivered a speech at the #5 new building beam-raising and groundbreaking of affiliated parking space ceremony

Category: Press Releases

November 17, 2020

• 2020

PCIe Gen 3x4 enterprise SSD provides competitive performance at best-in-class low power

SAN JOSE, Calif., November 17, 2020 – The FX SSD customizable platform is now shipping and is ideal for high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, application servers, and hyperscale data centers. All of which demand the best SSD performance that also offers the industry’s lowest power consumption.

The FX SSD platform gains its speed from its new architecture with up to 12 NAND channels. The FX Series is Phison’s first custom enterprise SSD that starts with a base design featuring highly efficient Phison CoXProcessors™. Phison’s proprietary IP paired with ARM Cortex R5 provides an efficient, yet powerful combination to drive success. Phison’s 20 years of flash storage industry experience enables customers to choose the features and requirements that fit their specific one-of-a-kind product needs.

Phison FX SSD Introduction Link

“For Enterprise SSDs, third generation PCIe remains the sweet spot today for enterprise storage companies and cloud service providers that are looking for combination of competitive performance with low power consumption," said Jeff Janukowicz, Research Vice President, IDC.  " With more than 20 million enterprise PCIe SSD units expected to ship this year, Phison’s new customizable FX SSD platform is in position to help further expand market adoption by providing enterprise customers with a feature set that will accelerate performance and minimize total cost of ownership for demanding applications.”

“Phison developed the FX SSD platform with the future in mind.  Artificial intelligence applications, high performance computing, and 5G networks require the absolute best performing storage devices to support their architecture. The FX SSD platform is designed for the most performance demanding PCIe Gen 3x4 platforms in existence now, but with lower power consumption making it an excellent upgrade for the next several years,” said K.S. Pua, CEO of Phison.

For more information about Phison’s Enterprise SSD solutions, visit the website:  https://www.phison.com/en/solutions/enterprise

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November 8, 2020

• 2020

Continuing to lead the PCIe Gen 4 storage market

SAN JOSE, Calif., November 8, 2020 – Phison Electronics (TPEX:8299), the industry leader in flash controller technology, is delivering the storage industry’s fastest PCIe Gen 4x4 NVMe SSD Solution, its second generation PS5018-E18 (E18) PCIe 4.0 controller. The E18 succeeds the PS5016-E16 released in late 2019.

Phison designed the new E18 from the ground up on the efficient TSMC 12nm process node. This provides SSD manufacturers with a state-of-the-art controller solution in an increasingly competitive field.  The controller utilizes Phison’s proprietary CoXProcessor™ 2.0 technology, an innovative SSD architecture that enables E18 to deliver exceptional performance and power efficiency.  Phison architecture is also primed for AI-assisted storage, where its distributed architecture uses many small cores to perform the workload in parallel.  The E18 is ideal for gamers, content creators, and computing enthusiasts, which demand the best experience. This ultra-low latency is possible only with NVMe SSDs. 

The E18 maximizes use of the available bandwidth of PCIe 4.0 to improve sequential read performance up to 7.4GB/s and write performance to 7.0GB/s, making E18 the only solution in the market to break the 7.0GB/s on both read and write access. When fully utilized, the eight-channel E18 delivers up to 1 million IOPS and scales to a massive 8TB capacity.

“AMD leads the industry with the first desktop processor and chipset support for PCIe® 4.0. As we continue to build new platforms that support PCIe® 4.0 technologies, we are happy to see companies like Phison expanding their Gen 4 SSD product offerings,” said Chris Kilburn, Corporate Vice President and General Manager, Client Component business unit, AMD. “In partnership with industry leading storage companies like Phison, we are committed to delivering new levels of storage performance across the entire PC landscape.”   

“It is forecasted that over the next few years, PCIe Gen 4 will lead in the client SSD market. Phison was one of the first to ship a Gen 4x4 SSD and has a leadership position in providing customers the best-in-class SSD for high performance client and desktop applications and gaming,” says Don Jeanette, Vice President, SSD Research at TrendFocus.

“While other companies are just now starting to release their first generation of PCIe Gen4 products, we have had a year-and-a-half lead with our ecosystem partner AMD.  I am very excited that our next generation controller E18 will enable our partners to fully utilize the PCIe Gen 4x4 bandwidth and generate 7.4GB/s performance for their customers.  We are proud to be leading the way in advancing this technology and we look forward to enhancing it in the years to come," says K.S Pua, CEO of Phison Electronics. 

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October 24, 2020

• 2020

The annual Phison Family Day is held today (10/24, Taiwan). Different from previous years, this year happens to be the 20th anniversary of Phison. Phison combines environmental protection, charity, family and sports to organize a series of charity sales, team competitions, road races, and parent-child interactive games. Phison hopes to gather the consensus and centripetal force of colleagues through Family Day.

Phison's 20th Anniversary Family Day Charity Marathon

In addition to Phison employees, more than 3,200 people from family members, cooperative customers, third parties, and affiliated companies participated in the Family Day. Miaoli County Mayor Hsu Yao-Chang and Hsinchu Mackay Memorial Hospital Director Dr. Su T.H. also took the time to participate in the event and congratulate Phison's 20th birthday together. For the senior employees, Phison also specially made the "20-year senior employee - gold bullion " to thank employees for their long-term contributions to Phison.

Phison's 20th Anniversary Family Day Thanks for Senior Employees

In addition, Phison also invited all partners to do charity together through fundraising methods, raising a total of 10 million NTD. It is expected to help 11 charity groups in Taiwan. It is hoped to attract public attention to the disadvantaged groups in Taiwan.

Phison’s CEO and chairman K.S. Pua said that 2020 is the 20th anniversary of Phison’s founding. " Looking back on the bit by bit and the ups and downs of the past 20 years, I have stumbled all the way. I really don’t know how I got through it. Special thanks to Toshiba Memory Corp. (now renamed KIOXIA), Kingston, and all the benefactors along the way. With their help, Phison was able to overcome various difficulties and grow strong to this day."

K.S. Pua went on to emphasize that without the efforts of employees and colleagues, there would be no Phison today. Therefore, in order to thank all the colleagues for their hard work, especially on the 20th anniversary, a special family day bonus of 15,000 NTD per person was issued. It is estimated that more than 1,900 full-time employees who were be employed before July 31 this year will be eligible. The bonus is more than 28 million NTD. In addition, Phison also specially allocated an additional 100 million NTD incentive bonus. For full-time employees who have been on the job before March 31 this year with good performance or special significant performance, they can receive it. In the next 20 years, Phison will continue to invest more in R&D, so like-minded R&D engineers are welcome to join Phison to create a future of unlimited growth.

Phison's 20th Anniversary Family Day, Chairman Pan Jiancheng delivers a speech