Phison Shows the First PCIe 4.0 SSD Demo with Fast Speed

Phison Shows the First PCIe 4.0 SSD Controller Demo with Fast Speed at CES 2019

Many technology companies have shown many new products at CES 2019 and one of the most interesting things is that the Phison has shown the first Phison E16 SSD controller demo with PCIe Gen 4×4 interface. And this Phison PS5016-E16 SSD controller has fast speed.

Nowadays, the PCIe 4.0 interface is not available in the market, but it may become available in the future. And here, we will show some specifications of this Phison E16 SSD controller.

The Phison E16 controller has been tested and the result shows impressive. On a 2TB demo drive with BiCS3 TLC NAND Flash memory, the result shows that the sequential read and write speed of this Phison PCIe 4.0 SSD controller can reach up to 4071.9MB/s and 4244.4MB/s. And Phison claims that the random read and write performance of this Phison E16 SSD controller are about 600,000 and 700,000 IOPS. With these features, the SSD with this Phison E16 SSD controller can get good performance.

Though the result is impressive, Phison claims that they believe that the performance of this Phison PCIe E16 SSD controller can become better, reaching up to 4800MB/s and 900,000 IOPS. All in all, Phison PCIe 4.0 SSD controller is an expecting one.

And now, we will show some specifications of this Phison PS-5016 E16 SSD controller demo.

• PCIe Gen 4×4 NVMe
• 8 Channels with 32 CEs
• NAND Interface of 800MT/s Support
• DDR4 Interface of 1600Mb/s Support
• 3D TLC & QLC NAND Flash Support
• Designed with Phison’s 4th Gen LDPC Engine

In addition, this Phison E16 SSD controller is so bleeding that the company doesn’t have a motherboard that supports the faster standard. However, Phison company has taken advantage of a specialized PLDA Gen4HOST adapter card for the demo. This adapter can convert the PCIe 3.0 x16 connection to a PCIe 4.0 x8 connection. And there is no need for you to worry since Phison has already certified its device as PCIe 4.0-compliant.

There is a dual-core ARM controller paired with two of Phison’s property CO-X processor cores in this PS5016-E16 SSD controller. What’s more, this Phison E16 SSD controller has eight addressable channels that can manage four flash packages apiece at 800MT/s.

In the market, the SSD has already begun to push the limits of PCI 3.0 x4 interface and the coming of the Phison PCIe 4.0 SSD controller will bring a great improvement of the solid-state drive market. And the performance of the SSDs also will forward a big step. Besides, Phison has claimed that the Phison E16 SSD controller will be available in Q3 2019.

Final Words

After reading this post, you can get the information that Phison has shown its PCIe 4.0 SSD controller – Phison E16 SSD controller demon at CES 2019. And the performance of this Phison E16 SSD controller is also good. This coming of Phison PCIe 4.0 SSD controller will make a great improvement of the solid-state drive market.