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It might be an understatement to say that Phison pulled out all the stops at Computex Taipei this year. It amazes me how far they have come and the success well earned. I remember when we first met up with Phison way back at Flash Memory Summit 2013. They were showing off their PS5006 Gen2x4 SSD controller capable of blazing speeds up to 1.5GB/s. Checking our archives, this is the very first shot I had ever taken of a Phison product.
To think we have progressed from 1.5GB/s to Phison’s newest PCIe 6.0 offering which will be hitting unbelievable data transfer speeds of 28GB/s data throughput read and write along with 6800K IOPS. Introducing the Phison’s newest PS5303-X3 Gen6x4 NVMe 2.3 Enterprise SSD controller.
Phison’s Gen6 display included the X3 in E3 and E1.S formats, demonstrating the range of possibilities for this Gen6 controller.
Consider this… Not only does the X3 meet security standards of TCG Opal 2.3, DOE, IDE, Caliptra and CNSA 2.0, but it also fully supports capacities up to an incredible 2PB. Take a look at both form factors suited up in their Pascari reference design casings.
Now take a look at the Phison Gen6 PS5303-X3 NVMe Enterprise SSD as it does a bit of showing off. Is this the first ever live Gen6 display we have seen?
Standing in the center of the Phison display at Computex demonstrated truly how far they have come. I couldn’t move. We were fighting for shots and each and every person was literally shoulder to shoulder. This Gen6 offering, in itself, may have been enough for Phison, but it was nowhere near all they had to offer. Checking back at this years Computex coverage, you will find two other updates already published. These detail Phisons new partnership with Intel and some first shots of their WildCat Lake Core 7 360 CPU as well as Phison’s Gen5 E37T low power high performance SSD controller. But wait!!! How about their enterprise updates?
First up we have the X202Z which is intended for sustained write intensive workloads as fgound in AI pipelines, caching environments, transactional systems, and write-heavy enterprise applications require sustained performance over long operational cycles. This Pascari SSD is shown in U2 and E1.L formats and capable of Gen5 speeds up to 14GB/s and 3000K IOPS.
The Pascari X201 isn’t the newest Phison offering but it is a clear example of business success. This is a low latency, high performing SSD with extreme IOPS and used in AI and data science, financial services, scientific and research cmputing as well as media and other enterprise and industrial opportunities.
Lastly, we have the Phison Pascari Enterprise D-Series SSDs, available in both M.2 and E1.S form factors. These PCIe Gen5 drives deliver impressive performance, offering sequential read speeds of up to 13.8 GB/s, write speeds of up to 6.9 GB/s, and as much as 2.2 million IOPS. Designed for data center, cloud, and edge infrastructure deployments, the D-Series combines high performance with exceptional power efficiency and reliability.
Of course, Phison’s success hasn’t come without a little bit of luck. In the final shot, you may have noticed a Phison-branded bag of corn puffs sitting beside the Pascari D250P. This is a nod to Kuai Kuai culture, a uniquely Taiwanese tradition deeply rooted in the country’s technology and semiconductor industries. Kuai Kuai (??), a popular coconut-flavored corn puff snack, may look like an ordinary bag of chips, but it serves a much more important purpose in many engineering environments: good luck. Technicians and engineers often place green bags of Kuai Kuai on servers, workstations, and manufacturing equipment as a charm believed to keep electronics running smoothly and free from unexpected issues.