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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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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

 

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SAN JOSE, CALIF., October 20, 2020 - Phison Electronics' (TPEX: 8299) Systems Integration and Engineering group (SIE) in Broomfield, Colorado, US will provide thorough real-time technical support and product-related services for enterprise SSD customers and partners in the region.  
The team excels in workload analysis, product customization, and creating purpose-built storage for a variety of applications.  In addition, the SIE group will reduce the time needed to qualify the go-to-market designs for Phison’s enterprise and data center customers while providing outstanding technical support.

The Systems Integration and Engineering group consists of industry experts with an average of 14 years of proven storage device experience. Their backgrounds range from firmware, controller design, and validation to product qualification and systems-level testing. The Colorado team and R&D lab are projected to grow its engineering staff in the coming months to meet the increasing demand for enterprise SSDs.

“On behalf of the Colorado Engineering team, we are excited to join this new chapter with Phison’s Enterprise SSD team,” said Tom Lenny, General Manager and Vice President of the Phison Enterprise SIE Group.  “Phison’s product strategy and customization support in Enterprise controllers and SSDs is highly competitive and leading in the industry.  We are proud to be joining the winning team and have big plans for future growth.”

“Many Enterprise SSD manufacturers have internal development teams to make their own storage controllers for their SSDs.  While this may be successful for specific products, over the long term there are time-to-market risks and operating expenses that can reach tens of millions of US dollars per ASIC.  Phison offers Enterprise SSD manufacturers an alternative to outsourcing the production of a controller or an entire turn-key SSD with customized firmware.  This enables the manufacturers to focus their internal engineering teams on their own strategic platforms that are critical to their future,” said Jim Handy, General Director of Objective Analysis.

“Colorado is one of the major storage industry centers in the United States. Some of the most prominent global companies in the storage and applications industry have a presence in Colorado. Investment in our engineers and R&D center there represents Phison’s commitment to supporting our OEM customers locally while maintaining technology leadership.  In addition, it reinforces Phison’s successful path in the enterprise storage market,” says K.S. Pua, CEO of Phison Electronics.

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

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MIAOLI, TAIWAN, August 31, 2020 -- Phison Electronics (8299.TW), the industry’s leader in NAND flash controllers and storage solutions, announces availability of the world’s first 15.36TB QLC customizable Enterprise SSD solution based on Phison’s S12DC controller.   Phison provides its customers with industry leading SSDs that are customized to their needs by leveraging Phison’s firmware, controller, PCBA design, and manufacturing.  The S12DC QLC SSD is an ideal storage solution by delivering higher performance, lower power consumption, and greater rack storage density for read intensive storage applications that currently source hard disk drives.  

Key Features:

  • World’s Highest Capacity 2.5” (7mm) 15.36TB QLC SATA SSD. 1.92TB, 3.84TB, and 7.68TB QLC SSDs are also available from this product family
  • Exceptional performance and low power specifications make it an easy decision to replace hard drives:
    • 530 MB/s sequential reads
    • 220 MB/s sequential writes
    • 90,000 random read IOPs
    • 10,000 random write IOPs
    • 4.5W maximum active power
  • 0.1 DWPD
  • Greater rack storage density – fitting in the 2.5” (7mm) standard form factor with 15.36TB, the S12DC QLC SSD uses approximately 1/8th of the physical space of a similar capacity 3.5” hard disk drive
  • Enterprise SSD feature set includes end-to-end data path protection, power loss protection capacitors (pFail), and a 5-year warranty
  • Availability: Phison began shipping the S12DC QLC SSDs to customers in August 2020
  • For more details visit the web page:  https://www.phison.com/en/S12DC-Enterprise-Customizable-Platform

“The adoption rate of QLC SSDs in the Data Center Market segment continues to gain traction in 2020,” said Don Jeanette, SSD Research Vice President of TRENDFOCUS. “With 4 bits per cell, the cost savings will continue to come down and provide customers value for these read intensive applications.  TRENDFOCUS forecasts the Enterprise SSD market will maintain greater than 10M units per year for a number of years out. Enterprise and Data Center customers looking for high capacity, lower cost SATA storage solutions will have a very viable option with this high capacity QLC based solution. “

“Phison is committed to offer our customers industry leading products with the highest level of customization,” said K.S. Pua, CEO of Phison Electronics. “The S12DC QLC SSD is Phison’s newest solution that offers the industry’s first 15.36TB capacity available in QLC Enterprise SATA SSDs.   Our customers appreciate Phison’s unique business model where we can tailor make any level of modification in the S12DC QLC SSD to perform optimally in their applications.  These modifications are the key differentiating features that our customers are proud to put their own brand name on.”

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With the efforts of the Taiwanese government and all citizens, the COVID-19 epidemic has gradually eased. Taiwan has continued to have no new local cases for more than one month. This achievement not only represents a high degree of crisis awareness and cooperation among the people of Taiwan, but also shows that the effectiveness of Taiwan ’s epidemic prevention is meaningful for all countries in the world. However, while all the Taiwanese people were busy with epidemic prevention, the epidemic situation also caused further hardship for the economically disadvantaged groups in Taiwan society.

Phison Electronics (PHISON; TPEx: 8299), a NAND controller and storage solutions provider, is in the line with the business philosophy of "Taking from the Society, Giving back to the Society", and has actively participated in various public welfare activities and assisted the disadvantaged groups in the society for a long time. During the epidemic, Phison contacted Miaoli’s TAIWAN FUND Children and Families and learned that there are quite a few economically disadvantaged families in Miaoli who have been affected by the outbreak. Therefore, Phison internally called for charitable donations and reached the fundraising goal in just 3 days. It is expected that more than 1,100 socially vulnerable families (a total of nearly 2,000 children) will receive this fundraising assistance.

Miaoli’s TAIWAN FUND Children and Families Received the Donation from T.H. Kuang, VP of Phison.

K.S. Pua, CEO and chairman of Phison, said that Phison has been stumbled all the way since founded. In addition to the efforts of all employees, the help of countless benefactors is also an important factor for Phison’s achievement. Therefore, Phison is grateful and has been giving back to the society for a long time since it started to make profits, and fulfilled its corporate social responsibilities. Phison hopes that through these donations and activities, it can set an example for others to follow, so that the public and more enterprises will pay attention to the disadvantaged groups in the society.

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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.