Category: Press Releases

September 1, 2020

• 2020

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 1/8^th 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.”

Category: Press Releases

May 26, 2020

• 2020

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.

Category: Press Releases

March 30, 2020

• 2020

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PHISON (TWSE: 8299) today held its new building groundbreaking ceremony on 30^th March 2020, located in Zhunan town, Miaoli county. The total investment of new building construction is nearly NT$1.4bn, and the new building is expected to increase more than 13,000 in Taiwan space ping (roughly equals to 39,000 square meter), mainly utilized for parking space (2 floors basement) and for R&D center and inventory management (7 floors above ground). The new building construction is also planned to finish by end of December 2021, and start to operate in early 2022. Furthermore, the new building is estimated to increase 1,500 to 2,000 engineers to continuously maintain PHISON’s leadership as the largest independent NAND controller IC design house globally.

Started from 2007, PHISON gradually purchased lands of Guangyuan Science Park in Zhunan town, Miaoli county, for corporate operation and R&D center use. Until today, the total amount of purchased lands is more than 15,000 in Taiwan space ping (roughly equals to 49,500 square meter), which occupied nearly 10% of the land of Guangyuan Science Park. The built building space currently already reaches 20,000 Taiwan ping, and will increase up to 33,500 Taiwan ping after finishing new building, demonstrating PHISON’s strategic arrangement for future growth and resolution of investing Taiwan.

K.S. Pua, CEO and Chairman of PHISON, expressed during the ceremony speech that due to WuHan coronavirus (COVID-19) the ceremony was arranged as simple as possible to protect guests and employees’ health from coronavirus. Furthermore, PHISON now is simulating engineers to work from home by turns to minimize the impact from the coronavirus.

K.S. Pua also emphasized that the impact from coronavirus is basically postponing the end-application demands instead of disappearing. Moreover, the coronavirus-caused telework (work from home) situation directly stimulates the demands for cloud servers, video surveillance systems, online shopping, and high-end gaming markets. Additionally, 5G technology is expected to drive growth of NAND-storage-related applications such as networking infrastructure, edge computing, and autonomous vehicle, etc., according to various market intelligence firms. It is remained positive for 2020 prospects.

PHISON’s No.5 New Building Groundbreaking Ceremony @ YouTube

Category: Press Releases

January 8, 2020

• 2020

Phison Electronics (8299.TW), the industry’s leader in flash controller and NAND storage solutions, is demonstrating mainstream performance using 4-bits per cell QLC NAND flash controllers and SSDs at the Consumer Electronics Show 2020 (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada. In its private suite, Phison is showcasing the addition of support for QLC NAND to its already shipping E16 PCIe Gen 4x4, E12 PCIe Gen 3x4, and S12 SATA controllers that use TLC NAND.  Phison’s industry leading approach leverages highly successful controllers that were qualified by tier-1 OEMs, are in mass production now, and extends new SSD designs to utilize either TLC or QLC NAND.  Phison’s proprietary QLC NAND controller technology enables higher SSD capacities in industry standard form factors while meeting the performance demands of mainstream applications.

Phison’s flagship E16 series controller for PCIe Gen 4x4 NVMe SSDs can achieve up to 4TB in capacity with QLC NAND and reaches speeds of 4.9 GB/s for sequential reads and 3.8GB/s for sequential writes.  The E12 series controller enables PCIe Gen 3x4 NVMe SSDs and has a capacity of up to 8TB and speeds of 3.4GB/s sequential reads, 3.0 GB/s sequential writes with QLC NAND.  For the SATA interface, Phison is also demonstrating the S12 controller series SSDs with up to 16TB using QLC NAND and performance at 550MB/s sequential reads and 530MB/s sequential writes.  Phison’s DRAM-less S13T controllers enable smaller form factors, have a capacity of up to 2TB, and operate at 550MB/s sequential reads and 500MB/s sequential writes.

“PC OEMs are always striving to offer higher storage capacities combined with performance to provide a quality PC experience for end users,” according to Jeff Janukowicz, research vice president at IDC.  “SSD manufacturers are increasingly looking to adopt QLC NAND technology in PCs, and the latest generation of SSD controllers such as Phison’s QLC client SSD controller are poised to enable suppliers to deliver SSDs that meet PC performance expectations at higher capacities, but at more affordable prices.”

“Adding QLC NAND support to the commercially successful E16, E12, and S12 series SSD controllers was a high priority request from our customers.  Phison not only listened, but we are proud to offer QLC NAND support with industry leading capacities and performance that provides our customers with key differentiating advantages,” said KS Pua, Chairman and CEO of Phison Electronics Corporation.

Phison will also be demonstrating its QLC enabled removable storage solutions for microSD, USB 3.2, and Thunderbolt 3^TM, showing impressive performance on all of the interfaces.

Visit Phison at CES 2020 at its private suite at the Bellagio to see the complete showroom and detailed showcase information from January 7th  - 10th.