Category: Press Releases

December 6, 2017

• 2018

2018 CES Invitation

Category: Press Releases

December 6, 2017

• 2018

Phison and Kingston Collaborate on NVMe SSD Controller to Accelerate into the Next SSD-era

Hsinchu, Taiwan -  December 6, 2017 – Phison Electronics (8299.TW), a leading provider of NAND flash solutions including removable flash, managed NAND, and SSD products, today announced combined SSD controller shipments to Kingston Technology (“Kingston”) exceeding 18 million units. This achievement shows Phison’s strong commitment to R&D investment in collaboration with Kingston to build a wide portfolio of SSD products. Since 2012, Phison has delivered more than 10 SSD controller solutions to Kingston^®consisting of PATA, SATA, and PCIe.  The latest duo of PCIe 3.0 NVMe controllers, E7 and E8, will continue to drive the next wave of SSD evolution for Kingston’s SSD line as the massive transition from SATA to PCIe interface continues in 2018.

“Phison's long-term partnership with Kingston Technology has enabled both companies to have a mutual and consistent understanding of the memory industry," said KS Pua, Chairman and CEO of Phison. “As the 2016 economy recovered, the companies worked closely together to solidify their industry leadership in the SSD market as they continue to expand their market share through 2017, in the midst of a flash shortage situation. SSD controller chip unit shipments this year more than doubled compared to last year. Looking forward, the cooperation between the two companies will be even closer to create new business opportunities and drive further revenue and profit growth".

Phison and Kingston also share common interests in developing and marketing enterprise-level storage. Phison’s S10 controller powers Kingston’s DC400 SSDs, featuring flexible over-provisioning and consistent performance. In 2015, Phison and Kingston co-invested in Liqid Inc, an enterprise start-up specializing in enterprise storage and composable infrastructure for the enterprise market.  In 2016, Kingston debuted the DCP1000, the company’s flagship high-performance enterprise SSD, equipped with Liqid’s proprietary RAID technology and Phison’s E7 controller. At its launch, the DCP1000 boasted best-in-class read and write performance of 6800 MB/s and 1.25 million IOPS, making it the world’s fastest NVMe add-in-card SSD.

“Phison and Kingston have enjoyed a close working relationship on many levels for over a decade,” said Nate Steffens, vice president of Flash memory, Kingston. “Their technology has enabled us to be one of the market leaders for solid-state drives, USB drives and embedded solutions. With their continued support, Kingston will remain one of the top players now and in the future.”

Phison and Kingston’s partnership extends beyond SSDs.  In November of 2010, Phison and Kingston identified the massive shift from removable cards to NAND embedded in mobile phone devices and joined forces to form Kingston Solutions, Inc. (“KSI”). This KSI joint venture later expanded to include Toshiba, Micron, and Mediatek.  The marriage has proven to be successful, as KSI has now become a significant solution provider to the mobile, IoT, and embedded market, with a wide range of product offerings, including eMCP, ePOP, eMMC, and UFS. 

In jointly celebrating Kingston’s 30^th anniversary, it is with pride that we relive some of Kingston’s and Phison’s milestone joint product innovations:

-      World’s largest USB Flash Drive (Data Traveler GT 2TB), 2017

-      World’s fastest enterprise SSD (DCP1000), 2016

About Phison

Phison Electronics Corp. is a global leader in NAND Flash controller IC and storage solutions. In 2000, Phison developed world’s first single-chip USB flash drive controller. For 17 years, Phison created of a wide range of innovative solutions over SSD (PCIe/SATA/PATA), eMMC, UFS, SD and USB interfaces, shipping over 600 million IC units annually. Adding value to customers, Phison also provides system integration and total solution services across consumer, industrial and enterprise markets. An active participant in industry standards, Phison is on the Board of Directors for SDA, ONFI, UFSA and a contributor for JEDEC, PCI-SIG, MIPI, NVMe and IEEE-SA. In this release, the terms “company” and “Phison” refer to Phison Electronics Corporation. To learn more about our technical breakthrough in NAND solutions, please visit http://www.phison.com or contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Category: Press Releases

August 8, 2017

• 2018

Flash Memory Summit 2017
SANTA CLARA, CA – August 7^th, 2017

Phison FMS 2017 Highlights

     Phison Electronics (8299.TW), industry leader in flash controller and NAND solutions, will be displaying its latest flash controller technology at Flash Memory Summit 2017. This year, the enthusiasm begins from next generation controllers enabling QLC flash technology, to unprecedented portable performance with our latest Thunderbolt^TM 3 SSD, to industry leading enterprise performance and features, to our new UFS PS8311 and PS8313 with groundbreaking performance.

Please join us in one of our many activities at FMS 2017.

Exhibit Hall A-B

August 7^th to 10^th, booth #613 & #614

Showcase

QLC Coming Soon… Machine Learning Signal Processing, Advanced SS Decoding
Phison E12 & S12 Coming Soon... Next Gen PCIe and SATA
Thunderbolt 3 SSD with Phison E7 Controller Unprecedented Portable Performance
Embedded UFS PS8311 & PS8313 SSD Performance for Mobile Devices
Renesas R-Car with Phison eMMC Advantech Digital Signage with Phison BGA SSD Qualcomm 835 chipset with Phison PS8313 UFS Huawei Kirin 960 chipset with Phison PS8313 UFS Eco Driven
Phison E7 PCIe NVMe Controller Driving the World's Fastest Enterprise Storage

For more information on our showcase, please refer to our “Press Kit” at FMS 2017 Press Kit

Speaker Sessions
August 8^th to 10^th

Thunderbolt and the Thunderbolt logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S.and/or other countries.

About Phison Electronics:

Phison Electronics Corp. is a global leader in NAND Flash controller IC and storage solutions. In 2000, Phison developed world’s first single-chip USB flash drive controller. For 16 years, Phison created of a wide range of innovative solutions over SSD (PCIe/SATA/PATA), eMMC, UFS, SD and USB interfaces, shipping over 600 million IC units annually. Adding value to customers, Phison also provides system integration and total solution services across consumer, industrial and enterprise markets. An active participant in industry standards, Phison is on the Board of Directors for SDA, ONFI, UFSA and a contributor for JEDEC, PCI-SIG, MIPI, NVMe and IEEE-SA. In this release, the terms “company” and “Phison” refer to Phison Electronics Corporation. To learn more about our technical breakthrough in NAND solutions, please visit http://www.phison.com or contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Category: Press Releases

August 8, 2017

• 2018

Flash Memory Summit 2017
SANTA CLARA, CA – August 7^th, 2017

Phison’s New PS8313 UFS Controller Brings to Mobile the High Performance CoXProcessor 2.0 Technology from Its PCIe SSD

Phison Electronics Corp., a world-leading NAND controller IC provider and member of UFSA Board of Directors, announces the PS8313 UFS 2.1 controller at the Flash Memory Summit. PS8313 is a top-performing 2-lane chip targeting Tier-1 flagship mobile chipsets and smartphones. Taking advantage of the latest generation of 3D TLCs, the state-of-the-art solution addresses the increasing capacity and cost per density requirements from the fast-changing mobile market.

UFS, or Universal Flash Storage, is the high-speed interface standard aimed to replace eMMC in mobile phones and SD cards in memory card applications. The latest UFS 2.1specification is equipped with increasing data rates and a differential-signaling serial interface with full-duplex operation. Currently, the best mobile application processors are gearing up the 2-lane UFS interface support at 1200MB/s, 3 times the speed over its predecessor eMMC, and PS8313 will be a leading independent UFS controller to meet the impressive throughput requirement. The powerful PS8313’s sequential and random read/write speeds on 3D NAND are topping 920/550MB/s and 67K/62K IOPS, which are comparable to SATA SSDs, bringing an unparalleled new experience to the ultimate smartphone users for gaming, high-resolution video and streaming applications.

PS8313 utilizes an advanced 28nm process while Phison’s innovative in-house M-PHY, UniPro and UFS IPs gives a total control over the solution for scalability. Equipped with an ultra-compact and low-power LDPC ECC engine designed for the latest 3D TLC, the controller effectively enhances memory endurance and reliability. The efficient design also removes the need for additional passive components in the UFS package, simplifying the BOM for the device manufacturers. Supporting a maximum of 8 NAND dice, PS8313 can enable up to 256GB of NAND storage into several form factors such as the UFS Card, discrete BGA, or UFS-based multichip packages with low-power DRAM (uMCPs) for different mobile applications.

The PS8313 controller consists of the following features:

“Phison aims to support the Tier-1 smartphone flagship models by introducing the UFS 2-lane PS8313 controller”, said Phison CEO and co-founder K.S. Pua. “For the best phones in the market, it will be exciting to see the powerful SSD-level performance on a small 11.5x13mm UFS BGA package. This is one of the most innovative solutions we are enabling with our partners’ 3D TLC NAND, contributing to an incredible application experience in the premium smartphone segment where the most competitive performance gets extra attention.”

* Raw performance without OS based on internal testing; performance may be lower depending upon host platform

About Phison Electronics:

Phison Electronics Corp. is a global leader in NAND Flash controller IC and storage solutions. In 2000, Phison developed world’s first single-chip USB flash drive controller. For 16 years, Phison created of a wide range of innovative solutions over SSD (PCIe/SATA/PATA), eMMC, UFS, SD and USB interfaces, shipping over 600 million IC units annually. Adding value to customers, Phison also provides system integration and total solution services across consumer, industrial and enterprise markets. An active participant in industry standards, Phison is on the Board of Directors for SDA, ONFI, UFSA and a contributor for JEDEC, PCI-SIG, MIPI, NVMe and IEEE-SA. In this release, the terms “company” and “Phison” refer to Phison Electronics Corporation. To learn more about our technical breakthrough in NAND solutions, please visit http://www.phison.com or contactThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..