Phison PS5018-E18 PCIe Gen 4x4 NVMe SSD Controller

Phison Electronics Corporation is delivering a fast PCIe Gen 4×4 NVMe SSD solution, its second-gen PS5018-E18 (E18) PCIe 4.0 controller.

Phison E18 Ssd Controller

The E18 succeeds the PS5016-E16 released in late 2019.

The company designed the E18 on the TSMC 12nm process node. It provides SSD manufacturers with a controller solution in a competitive field. The controller utilizes the firm’s proprietary CoXProcessor 2.0 technology, a SSD architecture that enables E18 to deliver performance and power efficiency. The firm’s 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 for gamers, content creators, and computing enthusiasts. This 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 it a solution to break the 7.0GB/s on both read and write access. When fully utilized, the !-channel E18 delivers up to one million IO/s and scales to 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 VP and GM, client component business unit, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.(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 4×4 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, VP, SSD research, Trendfocus.

“While other companies are just now starting to release their first gen 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 gen controller E18 will enable our partners to fully utilize the PCIe Gen 4×4 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, Phison.