CES 2024 is just a few weeks away, so Phison shared its plans for the buyer electronics trade’s largest commerce present this week. Among the many headliners of the occasion would be the firm’s newest PS5026-E26 Max14um platform for top-of-the-range PCIe Gen5 SSDs, in addition to the PS2251-21 (U21) single-chip platform for USB4 drives that brings collectively nice speeds and price effectivity.
The corporate’s PS5026-E26 Max14um platform, demonstrated again in August, depends on the PS5026-E26 controller with a PCIe 5.0 x4 interface and I/O+ expertise coupled with closely tuned firmware to allow as much as 14.7 GB/s sequential reads and as much as 12 GB/s sequential writes with Micron’s B58R 3D TLC NAND gadgets that includes a 2400 MT/s information switch price. Maybe extra importantly, drives based mostly on the ‘most’ platform are projected to supply 1.5 million random learn IOPS and 1.6 million random write IOPS, in line with Phison’s slide demonstrated at Flash Reminiscence Summit.
One of many notably fascinating wrinkles of the PS5026-E26 Max14um PCIe Gen 5 SSD platform is that it wants first rate cooling (identical to different E26-based drives, to be sincere), so to get to a 14.7 GB/s sequential learn velocity, Phison used Frore Programs’s AitJet Mini cooling techniques that use tiny vibrating MEMS membranes to generate airflows. We are able to solely ponder whether Phison will suggest utilizing these cooling gadgets for the PS5026-E26 Max14um-powered drives, however a minimum of SSD suppliers have such an possibility.
One other product that Phison will show at CES is its Phison PS2251-21 (U21) single-chip answer suited to small moveable storage gadgets ‘in typical and unconventional type components’ with a USB4 interface. The corporate says that these drives will provide efficiency of as much as 4 GB/s, which is greater than what the very best SSDs with a PCIe 3.0 x4 interface present. A single-chip answer like this might allow cheap, high-performance exterior USB4 drives and direct-attached storage gadgets, that are non-existent immediately.
Along with the maxed-out PS5026-E26 Max14um platform and the PS2251-21 (U21) single-chip USB4 storage answer, Phison will once more show its low-power PCIe Gen5 PS5031-E31T controller platform for low-cost DRAMless SSDs that encompasses a quad-channel NAND structure and guarantees a sequential learn velocity of as much as 10.8GB/s and capacities as much as 8 TB. Additionally, the corporate will showcase its low-power PS5027-E27T, a controller for M.2-2230 SSDs with a PCIe Gen4 interface, which can come in useful for gadgets like Asus ROG Ally or Valve’s Steam Deck.
