Phison introduced a controller for the first mass-market SSDs with PCIe 5.0

At the Future of Memory and Storage (FMS) event, Phison demonstrated its latest developments. She received the Best of Show award for the aiDAPTIV+ software and hardware platform, and also showed the latest SSD controllers and reference drives.

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Phison E31T is positioned as the world’s first SSD controller with PCIe 5.0 support, aimed at the mass market. It allows you to achieve read and write speeds of 10,000 MB/s without a heatsink, which means SSDs with this controller can be installed on laptops. The component offers 1,500 thousand I/O operations per second for reading and writing, as well as support for capacities up to 8 TB. Phison E31T supports M.2 2280 and M.2 2230 form factors.

However, the company is not abandoning the PCIe 4.0 generation yet: the Phison E29T controller without DRAM, manufactured using TSMC’s 12nm process technology, promises to become a champion in efficiency and performance: it offers read speeds of up to 7400 MB/s, supports capacities of up to 8 TB, as well as M.2 2280 and M.2 2230 form factors.

In the corporate segment, Pascari, a division of Phison, showed the D200V SSD with a capacity of 64 TB with PCIe 5.0 support in data center-oriented U.2, E3.S and E3.L form factors. It is designed for systems with large storage needs and takes advantage of PCIe 5.0 – sequential read speeds up to 14,000 MB/s. This SSD provides “increased storage density per rack”; Pascari D200V uses 8th generation BiCS Flash QLC memory. Drives in this series will allow storage to scale beyond 100 TB, helping to reduce operating costs, added Phison Electronics CEO Pua Khein Seng.