Category: Press Releases

June 14, 2017

• 2018

Phison Gears Up for Mobile Phone Market with PS8226 3D NAND eMMC 5.1 Controller

Phison Electronics (TPEX:8299), a leading NAND flash controller solution provider, today announced its latest PS8226 eMMC controller at 2017 Computex Taipei. This eMMC 5.1 compliant controller aims to support the vast 3D TLC technology from multiple NAND memory companies.
 
The second half of 2017 will see a strong demand for mobile devices. Driven by the increasing performance and capacity requirements from high-resolution video and streaming applications, various smartphone manufacturers plan on introducing an array of new products in the next quarters, and the eMMC and eMCP storage devices are in high demand. Phison is optimistic that the new PS8226 with 3D NAND solutions will capture a significant share in the mobile storage market.
 
The expansion of the mobile market saw Phison’s eMMC/eMCP controller solutions benefiting from Tier-1 smartphone brands design-wins through strategic NAND and module partners. PS8226 is set to continue this trend. Currently, the 2D to 3D NAND transition is aggressively driven by all memory manufacturers, and the PS8226 will contribute as the first independent eMMC controller taking advantage of 3D TLC’s high density and performance. The strong momentum of PS8226 solutions will also pave the way for the next generation UFS (Universal Flash Storage) adopting 3D TLC NAND.
 
In order to deliver the best endurance out of the emerging 3D NAND, PS8226 is equipped with Phison’s proprietary StrongECC™ correction engine.  Utilizing an optimized power domain management scheme and innovative hardware architecture, the power consumption of PS8226 has reduced by 50% while the random performances have doubled compared to the 2D NAND eMMC solutions.  The efficient design of the PS8226 effectively removes the need for additional passive components in the eMMC package, enabling significant overall BOM savings. These advantages of PS8226 will help customers accomplish high performance, robust, power-efficient and cost-competitive 3D eMMC/eMCP mobile solutions.
 
Phison PS8226 Highlights:

• eMMC 5.1 compliant with Command Queue support
• Supports latest 3D MLC & TLC, up to 8 NAND CE, capacity up to 256GB
• Proprietary StrongECC™ guarantees the 3D TLC reliability: Compared to a traditional BCH ECC engine, the StrongECC™ improves 30% in decoding capability and saves 70% more power
• 3D TLC sequential performance: Up to 310MB/s read and 220MB/s write
• 3D TLC random performance: Up to 22K IOPS read and 29K IOPS write

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 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

May 31, 2017

• 2017

Next Generation 3D NAND Propels PCIe SSD Adoption

Phison Electronics (8299.TW), a worldwide industry leader in flash controller and NAND solutions, kicks off its showcase at Computex 2017, displaying its latest and greatest technologies in SSD, USB, SD, and UFS solutions. Invited attendees and partners will be given sneak preview demos of upcoming 3D NAND solutions with Phison controllers. The key focus for Phison in the 2nd half of 2017 will be enabling next generation 3D NAND across all types of flash controllers.

Phison is excited about the next generation 3D NAND from Toshiba and Micron. Currently, early engineering development data have exhibited an improvement of 8x endurance, 4x performance, and 20% power efficiency over the 2016 predominate 2D NAND. ”The next generation 3D NAND from both Toshiba and Micron enables Phison to provide more energy efficient solutions to our partners in mobile and extends product field life for our partners targeting enterprise storage respectively. This is a huge breakthrough for the storage industry.” – CS Ma, Phison CTO

"Today's system designers are increasingly relying on Micron to help them meet the growing demands of mobile computing and hyper scale data centers. Micron is pleased to bring our 3D NAND solutions to Phison to help them innovate while improving speed, performance and capacity that can be applied to all of their storage applications." – Eric Endebrock, Micron VP Storage Solutions Marketing

The next generation 3D NAND directly provides major benefits for PCIe storage solutions. Both Phison’s PS5008-E8 and PS5008-E8T controllers now provide a mainstream, high-performance solution in a small package from M.2 2280 to BGA SSD. The challenges of high performance, high capacity, efficient power, and thermal can now be addressed in the smallest industry form factor like the BGA 1113 package. With PCIe SSD adoption ontrack to surpass SATA SSD by the end of 2017, Phison expects both PS5008-E8 and PS5008-E8T controllers to gain significant demand.

Customer sampling of the following controllers with “Next Generation 3D NAND” will be ready in Q3 of 2017:

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 and has since created a wide range of innovative solutions over SSD (PCIe/SATA/PATA), eMMC, UFS, SD and USB interfaces, shipping over 600 million IC units annually. Phison also provides value-added 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

April 18, 2017

• 2017

Phison Win Litigations against U-Tech in Brazil

Phison Electronics Corporation (“Phison”) in September 2011 filed litigation in Brazil against U-TECH DO BRASIL INDÚSTRIA, IMPORTAÇÃO, EXPORTAÇÃO E DISTRIBUIÇÃO LTDA. (“U-TECH”) and its legal representative and guarantor Mr. Daniel Modelis (“Mr. Modelis”), claiming that U-TECH together with Mr. Modelis shall return overdue payment and reimburse other remedies to Phison. The district court and appeal court in São Paulo state, Brazil bothissued judgments in favor of Phison in October 2014 and March 2017, holding that U-Tech and Mr. Modelis shall pay the overdue payment together with other remedies. Per the whole legal proceeding is complete, Phison will enforce the court judgment to protect its rights and interests.

Category: Press Releases

January 5, 2017

• 2018

Phison Unveil at CES 2017 The Next Generation of NAND Flash Controllers

Las Vegas, NV – January 5th, 2017

Phison Electronics (8299.TW), a worldwide industry leader in flash controller and NAND solutions, kicks off the new year with its showcase at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2017, displaying its latest and greatest technologies for SSD, USB, SD, and UFS solutions. Invited attendees can find Phison at Las Vegas’ Caesar’s Palace in a demo suite exhibiting the company’s industry-leading product portfolio.

Phison will be unveiling at CES 2017 a new PCIe Gen 3x2 NVMe controller, the PS5008. This controller provides incredible performance, nearly three times that of SATA, but delivered at a competitive price point, highlighting Phison’s endeavor to bring PCIe SSDs into mainstream adoption.

For enterprise applications, Phison has partnered with Liqid Inc. to enable the world’s fastest U.2 SSD, utilizing the ultra-high speed PCIe Gen3x4 PS5007-E7, Phison’s powerful 8-channel NVMe controller. Additionally, Phison is driving forward as a market leader to address the explosive demands of cloud storage with its SATA S10DC enterprise solution (announced at Flash Memory Sumit 2016). Two other top-performing SATA controllers, the PS3110-S10 and PS3111-S11T, are also on display.

This year for microSD and SD cards, Phison introduces the latest SD5.1 A1 compliant controller, the PS8131. With more than twice the write IOPS of the previous generation the PS8131 MaxIOPS+ offers absolute superiority, targeting high densities based on 3D TLC NAND flash. With 2000/1300 read/write IOPS, PS8131 clearly exceeds the requirements of the SD5.1 A1 industry standard for read/write performance. Scheduled for MP in Q1 of 2017, the PS8131 readily meets the increasing storage and performance demands of the mobile market. Users can be confident in the compatibility and performance of their microSD in high-demand applications such as adoptable storage in Android operating system.

Following Phison’s latest press announcement, the new PS8311 UFS 2.1 controller will also be on display on the suite’s show floor. The PS8311 is equipped with StrongECCTM technology and CoXProcessorTM architecture, providing low-power and SSD-like performance to mobile devices. As one of the first companies in the world to shift from eMMC into UFS, Phison drives the new era of mobile storage.

Finally, attendees can witness Phison’s newest portable SSD, the SU31. With a live performance demo, attendees can view the superior speeds of the SU31 versus that of an internal SSD. Also on display will be the new iDUO Lightning and C-Thru solutions, providing both storage and power to your devices. These solutions support USB 3.1 that offer charging power to USB-C or Lightning smartphones and tablets. Users can comfortably access their files while concurrently utilizing the port for power.

Attendees can find Phison at Las Vegas’s Caesar’s Palace in the Forum Tower on January 5th- 8th.

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Director of Product Marketing

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GM, Phison American Business Div.

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Chief of Staff, IR and Strategy

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