LAS VEGAS, NV — At CES, SSD controller vendor Phison is showing off a range of controller ICs and drive reference designs that are close to hitting the shelves.
Phison's second generation of NVMe SSD controllers has been on the roadmap for quite a while, but now the products are starting to become a reality. The PS5008-E8 and its DRAMless -E8T variant are Phison's solution for the emerging low-end NVMe product segment. These controllers will be used with 3D TLC NAND flash memory, and their performance will be limited by the use of a PCIe 3 x2 interface instead of the x4 interface used by high-end NVMe drives. The DRAMless E8T controller supports the NVMe 1.3 Host Memory Buffer (HMB) feature to offset the random I/O performance hit that DRAMless SATA SSDs suffer from. The E8 series is in mass production using UMC's 40nm fabrication process. MyDigitalSSD has already started shipping their SBX SSD using the E8 controller, and many other brands will soon be shipping products using the E8 or E8T.
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Phison at CES 2018: Thunderbolt SSDs
11th January 2018, 18:53
Phison at CES 2018: Thunderbolt SSDs 
