Phison has announced that it will release its next generation E26 controller for the SSD PCIe Gen 5.0 in the second half of 2022. The SSDs that Phison will launch by then will be compatible with next-generation PCIe 5.0 platforms, including the Intel Alder Lake CPU series that will launch in November.
The PCIe 5.0 protocol is programmed to increase bandwidth over the previous generation of PCIe 4.0, doubling the speed of bandwidth. The SSD format allows read and write speeds to be increased to 7.000 megabytes or more, unlike traditional hard drives that will remain as secondary mass storage drives.
Phison prepares for SSDs to use PCie 5.0
Phison is ready to build its first PCIe 5.0 platform in its E26 series. The company has not yet published specifications, so we will have to wait for them to be confirmed in the coming months.
Since consumer PCs are nowhere close to reaching the true current speeds of PCIe 4.0 SSDs, business PCs are expected to notice these higher speeds of SSDs and PCIe 5.0 more. Microsoft's DirectStorage API enables game developers to achieve faster speeds than in previous years using the PCIe 4.0 protocol.
Once the Intel Alder Lake CPUs and the PCIe 5.0 protocol have come out, Phison will be ready to set the stage to offer its solutions for the SATA SSD storage capacities of commercial and consumer customers. The company has already created an E26 PCIe 5.0 test chip, built in a twelve-nanometer node. They expect to have their custom E26 controller SSD solutions in businesses and homes from the second half of 2022.
Source: Wccftech
