"Interestingly, these PCIe 5.0 SSDs were also being offered with two controllers: one running Silicon Motion (SM) chips, and the other on Phison. AGi also showed off its microSD Express card, which, as you know, is designed to be compatible with the Nintendo Switch...

"Phison has put out new benchmarks for its E28 Gen5 SSD controller, offering much lower power than Silicon Motion, while also unveiling E31T drives and some superb demos. Phison Compares Power Figures of Flagship E28 Gen5 Controller To Silicon Motion's SM2508,...

"Phison pioneered the PCIe 5.0 SSD transition with its award-winning E26 SSD controllers that powered nearly every one of the new speedy SSDs when they first arrived, but now the Phison E28 promises to take performance and efficiency to new heights. . . . The...

"It forgoes DRAM to keep costs down, instead leaning on your PC’s primary memory as a host memory buffer (HMB) and a Phison PS5027-E27T controller to keep things snappy in most real-world tasks. You won’t find groundbreaking consistency under heavy load, but for...

"On the storage side, Apacer had a new external USB4 Gen 3x2—otherwise known as 40 Gbps—SSD, which is based on the Phison U21 controller. The AS741 as the drive is called, will be available in sizes from 1 TB to 4 TB and it should offer sequential read speeds of up...