Phison’s new PCIe 5.0 chip ushers in the new age of super fast SSD storage
Phison’s custom SSD controller solution will double the bandwidth of today’s tech.
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A new SSD standard is coming, and it’s going to be lightning fast. Helping usher us into the new age of super fast SSDs, Phison just came out with an announcement that its first PCIe 5.0 customised SSD controller is in the works, and should be in mass production by 2022.
The news (viaBenchLife) puts more weight into the notion that PCIe 5.0 isexpected to arrive next yearsome time—as long as supply chain issues don’t have too much of a negative impact—though we were hoping for the new standard to hit around the same time as Intel’s upcomingAlder Lake CPUs.
Either way, with Phison grinding away at these upcoming controllers, andKioxia’s recent PCIe 5.0 prototypeteasing us with 14,000MB/s sequential read and 7,000MB/s sequential write speeds, we’re staring down yet more nails in the coffin for our currentbest PCIe 4.0 SSDs.
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Phison’s new controller, named PS5026-E26, will retain a 12nm semiconductor process, and combines ARM R5 processor and CoXProcessor 2.0 architecture. It will be compatible with M.2, U.3, E1.S, and E3.S products, among others, sonext-gen motherboards are edging ever closerto our grasp.
There’s still a little while to wait before the tech trickles down to consumers, but we may be totally wiped out by the time it gets to us, anyway—with companies likeSamsung looking to copy the human mind onto an SSD, just imagine how much faster PCIe 5.0 SSDs will make the process.
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