Phison PS5018-E18 PCIe Gen4 Flash Controllers for 176-Layer NAND

Phison Electronics Corp. announces shipping of its PS5018-E18 PCIe Gen4 controllers to manufacturer partners with 176-layer replacement gate NAND.

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The E18 paired with 176-layer fills the role in the company’s product stack as the highest performing E18 to date. The potent combination delivers up to 7,400MB/s sequential reads and 7,000MB/s sequential writes.

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The largest gains arrive in random read latency where the new premium tier shows a 35% performance increase over previous models at low queue depth improving user experience in system responsiveness. The E18 delivers the best game load times of any consumer SSD in its class.

“We worked closely with our technology partners to deliver a premium product to dominate the game of game load times. E18 combined with industry leading 176-layer media maximizes the PCIe Gen4 bus delivering overpowering performance that you feel in the user experience,” said Michael Wu, president and GM, Phison Electronics US.

The 176-layer replacement gate architecture NAND combines charge traps with a CMOS-under-array (CuA) design. The flash has an approximate 30% smaller die size compared to previous gen 96-layer NAND and has a 35% increase in read and write performance.

Today, reviewers from third-party test sites will unleash the performance of the PS5018-E18 paired with leading NAND manufacturer’s 176-layer memory that utilizes a 1,600MT/s bus to set new performance world records.

The company designed the E18 on the TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd.) 12nm process node with proprietary CoXProcessor 2.0 technology. This provides SSD manufacturers with a controller solution to build optimized products. E18 delivers on the promise of a 1,600MT/s media bus to deliver the best user experience for both high-performance desktops and newly introduced PCIe Gen4 notebooks.