Phison presents the PS5018-E18 controller that will allow up to 8TB of capacity and up to 7TB/s of reading and writing

Phison has presented a new driver for M.2 NVMe SSDs that will allow speeds of up to 7TB / s reading and writing.

SSD drives are getting better in price thanks to increasing the density of memory chips. Transfer speeds are also improved, especially with the arrival of the PCIe 4.0 interface. Phison is one of the controller manufacturers on the market. They have recently released the E16 to support PCIe 4.0. The company during the Flash Memory Summit has announced the PS5018-E18 controller.

Currently the biggest bottleneck of a computer is in the storage unit. A lot has come from HDDs, which are very slow, heavy, fragile, and inefficient. SSDs in their SATA or M.2 versions are much more efficient, faster and more resistant, but they are not yet enough. Phison takes a major leap in this field and will improve system performance.

Phison PS5018-E18, a new controller for high-performance SSDs

We see how the Phison PS5016-E16 it is common in M.2 NVMe SSDs with support for PCIe 4.0. These drives offer 5MB / s read and 000MB / s write. It also allows reaching 4 / 400 IOPS for both reading and writing with a consumption of 750W. The new PS 000-E750 will offer read and write speeds of 000GB / s and go up to 2.6IOPS in both read and write.

This has been achieved thanks to the fact that this Phison driver goes from TSM's 28nm lithography to TSMC's 12nm. This controller will have a maximum consumption of 3W. It integrates three 5-bit ARM Cortex R32 processors into the package, instead of the two integrated to date. Each memory channel goes from 800MT / s to 1MT / s.

This controller will offer support for DDR4 / LPDDR4 cache memory, supporting TLC NAND and QLC NAND memories. In addition, this Phison driver offers support for NVMe 1.4. Finally, we must highlight that it will support up to eight memory channels to offer up to 8TB of capacity in each SSD.

Source: OC3D