Phison Elevates Technology Solutions in 2022

Phison Electronics Corp. announced milestones in 2022 that were highlighted by key partnerships, product innovations and advancements, and overall technology leadership.

“Despite market challenges, Phison is proud to have successfully navigated 2022 with strong innovation and technology leadership, 2 hallmarks of our company,” said K.S. Pua, CEO. “As a forward-thinking company, we cannot wait to bring more SSD customizations, innovations, and solutions to our partners, and customers next year.“

In 2022, the team continued to increase, and enhance their technology through impactful collaborations, products and customizable applications in gaming, enterprise, embedded, and industrial. Below highlights milestones in 2022.

Future of Gaming Heats Up Winter
Phison kickstarted 2022 by showcasing its roster of next gen gaming solutions at CES that featured a demonstration of the company’s first PCIe Gen5 controller for high-end desktop gaming. A combination of performance and low power usage, the PS5026-E26 uses firm’s architecture, and features a customizable SSD platform designed for PCIe Gen5 that will span enterprise and consumer markets.

Later that month, the vendor was honored with the world’s first SD Association award for its SD Express storage solution, gaining functional safety certification in the automotive storage market. The certification was a point of validation in the quest to build automobile storage solutions that lead to safer vehicles.

Partnerships Flourish in the Spring
To meet the demand for higher density, faster, and smarter infrastructure enterprise applications such as hyperscale data centers, HPC, and AI, the company and longtime partner, Seagate, announced a collaboration on an enterprise SSD solution in April. The collaboration is designed to broaden both firm’s portfolio of high-density enterprise SSDs optimized to lower data center TCO.

“Phison is a leader in the NAND flash controller and storage solutions business offering innovative and advanced customized SSDs,” Sai Varanasi SVP of product and business marketing, Seagate Technology. “Seagate is pleased with longstanding collaboration and looks forward to continuing the development of products that serve the broad performance-driven enterprise and specialized premium gaming SSD markets.“

At Computex in May, Phison announced a strategic PCIe Gen5 relationship with AMD and Micron, intended to build a cooperative PCIe Gen5 ecosystem of compatible products that elevate the gaming and creator experience. Its role includes delivering a PCIe Gen5 SSD controller – the PS5026-E26. The E26, promising a nearly 2x performance increase over the previous gen, is introduced along with other storage solutions.

In addition to the 2 spring partnerships, Phison announced the deployment of the first PCI-SIG Association Certified PCIe 5.0 Redriver IC PS7101. The Phison Redriver helps solve the compatibility problems of high-speed signal transmission between a CPU and peripheral devices such as SSDs and graphic cards.

Summer Sizzles with X1 and I/O+ Technology
During the Flash Memory Summit, Phison launches its X1 controller-based SSD that reinforced the company’s commitment to elevating the bar in enterprise storage by delivering the enterprise SSD. Designed in partnership with Seagate, the X1 SSD customizable platform offers more computing with less energy consumption.

Sharing the spotlight at FMS was Phison’s I/O+ Technology – a group of custom firmware innovations that optimize the SSD for sustained read workloads that run for hours. The I/O+ received rave reviews for the new firmware’s ability to transform existing Phison-powered SSDs into DirectStorage-capable devices. DirectStorage is a new API that allows games to take advantage of speedy NVMe SSDs.

Fall and the Final Frontier: Space
Heading into fall, the company announced a partnership with SkyCorp, a company focused on space logistics. The collaboration objective is to enhance space-based computing and storage on lunar missions. This partnership continues the company’s journey into space. Phison already has SSDs on the Mars Perseverance Rover and International Space Station.

After showcasing the E26 in January, Phison shipped the E26 in October, culminating a year filled with achievements through edge applications and partnerships.