Phison Celebrates Award-Winning Innovation and Partner Ecosystem Growth at COMPUTEX 2026

The company had a successful showing at the international event.

At COMPUTEX 2026, Phison returned with the clear message that storage is no longer just about capacity, performance, or endurance. It is becoming an intelligent foundation that enables the next generation of AI, infrastructure, and system-level innovation.

Under this year’s theme, “Evolving Data Storage Intelligence,” Phison showcased how decades of storage expertise are expanding beyond traditional SSD technologies to power a growing portfolio of intelligent solutions across AI computing, enterprise infrastructure, mobile platforms, and high-speed connectivity.

The booth itself reflected this vision. Anchored by the Phison brand at the rear of the booth and extending forward to the Pascari showcase at the main entrance, the design symbolized how Phison’s core technologies serve as the foundation for a growing ecosystem of Pascari solutions. Together, they demonstrate how storage innovation can evolve into system-level intelligence that enables customers and partners to unlock new possibilities.

Located along the main thoroughfare of Hall 1, 4F at Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center, Phison’s booth once again became one of the most visited destinations at COMPUTEX 2026. From the opening bell through the final afternoon, the booth remained packed with customers, partners, media, and technology enthusiasts eager to experience the latest advancements in AI, enterprise storage, mobile storage, and client computing.

The Phison booth was a popular destination for attendees throughout the event.

Two COMPUTEX Best Choice Awards highlight Phison innovation

2026 proved to be another milestone year for Phison, with two solutions earning prestigious COMPUTEX Best Choice Awards.

Leading the recognition was the Pascari D206V enterprise SSD, which received the COMPUTEX Best Choice Golden Award. Delivering an industry-leading 245.76 TB capacity point, the Pascari D206V represents a significant leap forward in storage density for hyperscale data centers, AI infrastructure, and enterprise environments.

On the opening day of the event, Taiwan President Lai Ching-te personally visited the exhibition to present the award. Phison CEO and Co-Founder KS Pua accepted the honor, marking a proud moment for the entire Phison team.

Phison’s AI solution portfolio, Pascari aiDAPTIV™, was also recognized with a COMPUTEX Best Choice Category Award. The award highlights Phison’s growing leadership in democratizing AI development through a complete suite of training and inference solutions that enable organizations to deploy AI efficiently using commercially available hardware.

The president of Taiwan presented the COMPUTEX Best Choice Golden Award to Phison CEO/Co-Founder KS Pua for the Pascari D206V enterprise SSD.

Powering sovereign AI through open collaboration

This year, Phison’s AI ecosystem was showcased under the banner of “Powering Sovereign AI,” aligning closely with COMPUTEX 2026’s broader vision of “AI Together.”

Building upon the Pascari aiDAPTIV platform, Phison collaborated with Intel to help multiple system partners introduce AI PCs powered by Intel integrated graphics, demonstrating that advanced AI workloads can be delivered without requiring costly specialized hardware.

Press coverage about Phison’s Intel collaboration during and after the event was extremely positive.

“The collaboration focuses on enabling Phison’s technology on Intel AI PC platforms powered by Intel Core Ultra processors, including support for the OpenVINO toolkit, the two companies said. Together, Phison and Intel are working to demonstrate the technology for software vendors, which could eventually optimize their own apps for the technology.” (Source: PCWorld.com)

An article in Interesting Engineering about Phison’s collaboration with Intel reported: “At Computex, the companies demonstrated a local chat interface running a mixture-of-experts model that would normally exceed the available system memory. Phison also showcased a hybrid large-language-model routing system built on OpenClaw, an open-source agent framework. The demonstration allowed larger models to run locally while using cloud-based resources only when more complex requests required additional processing.”

A reporter for SDxCentral wrote: “Phison recently partnered with Intel on a solution targeting agentic workloads. This collaboration hinges on an extended flash-memory-based technology from Phison designed to handle memory-gobbling agents. … Seeing the laptops running Phison’s tech, as powered by Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processors, it felt like the era of the AI PC had truly begun.”

Beyond hardware, Phison welcomed several independent software vendors to jointly demonstrate real-world AI applications running on aiDAPTIV-powered platforms. Partners including WrenAI, Barking Dog, Taiwan Mobile, and many others showcased solutions spanning knowledge management, intelligent assistants, enterprise AI workflows, and vertical applications, highlighting the growing ecosystem surrounding sovereign and private AI deployments.

Beyond the booth itself, Phison collaborated with more than 25 co-marketing partners throughout the event. These collaborations extended across partner exhibition booths, joint demonstrations, ecosystem integrations, online campaigns, and product announcements, highlighting both Pascari enterprise storage and aiDAPTIV-powered AI solutions.

Together, these partnerships demonstrated how Phison technologies are being adopted across a growing range of real-world deployments and industry applications.

Advancing enterprise infrastructure from controller to connectivity

Occupying the center of the booth was the Phison enterprise PCIe Gen6 SSD controller showcase, one of the earliest public demonstrations of Phison’s next-generation Gen6 roadmap.

The Phison X3 underscores Phison’s commitment to delivering turnkey PCIe Gen6 SSD solutions and attracted strong interest from hyperscale customers, enterprise partners, and industry observers eager to see the next evolution of high-performance storage infrastructure.

Tom’s Hardware wrote about the Phison X3, saying: “The controller is spec’d to deliver 28 GB/s of sequential read/write throughput and up to a blistering 6.8 million random read/write IOPS. Peak storage capacity weighs in at an incredible two petabytes; yes, 2 petabytes per SSD. Power efficiency is a focus for this controller, with Phison claiming 4 GB/s per watt, which works out to a total power draw of 7 Watts.”

Adjacent to the Phison X3 demonstration, visitors were also introduced to Phison’s high-speed signal conditioning solutions, including redrivers and retimers designed for increasingly demanding PCIe Gen6 environments.

A key highlight featured the PS7261 PCIe Gen6 retimer operating alongside four X3-based SSD working samples in a live demonstration, showcasing Phison’s ability to maintain signal integrity and reliable high-speed data transmission across next-generation storage platforms.

Together, these demonstrations reinforced Phison’s expanding role in enabling not only storage devices, but the broader infrastructure technologies required to support future AI and data center deployments.

Advancing mobile and embedded storage innovation

Beyond AI and enterprise storage, Phison also showcased several next-generation mobile storage technologies.

Highlights included the upcoming PS8365 UFS 5.0 controller, designed to enable future smartphone storage performance exceeding 10 GB/s, as well as a demonstration combining Phison UFS 4.0 storage with aiDAPTIV technology and MediaTek’s Dimensity 9500 platform to accelerate on-device AI inference.

The Phison PS8365 UFS 5.0 controller boasts over 10 GB/s of storage performance for future flagship AI smartphones.

Phison also collaborated with both Intel and AMD to demonstrate innovative UFS-based solutions for emerging computing platforms.

Together with Intel, Phison showcased a new M.2 2230 UFS storage solution that brings UFS technology into a standardized, removable M.2 form factor. Designed for AI PCs, thin-and-light notebooks, and other space-constrained systems, the solution delivers cost-optimized 128 GB and 256 GB capacity points while maintaining the flexibility and serviceability that system designers value.

Phison also worked with AMD to demonstrate a PCIe-to-UFS architecture enabled by the company’s in-house PS5963 bridge IC, highlighting new possibilities for efficient and compact storage designs.

Phison E37T captures industry-wide recognition

Not to be overshadowed by AI and enterprise innovations, Phison’s E37T client SSD controller became one of the breakout stars of COMPUTEX 2026.

The highly efficient PCIe Gen5 controller earned multiple “Best of COMPUTEX 2026” awards from leading technology publications, including Tom’s Hardware, TweakTown, EnosTech, and eTeknix. The growing collection of awards quickly created an enviable challenge for the booth team—finding enough space to display them all.

The Phison E37T was a breakout star of the event, racking up multiple awards.

Among the strongest endorsements came from Jon Coulter of TweakTown, who described the Phison E37T as “the best consumer SSD ever made,” recognizing its unique combination of performance, power efficiency, and value.

Coulter added: “We’ve seen them come and we’ve seen them go, but never have we seen any of its kind do what our 1 TB E37T-controlled SSD did here today. A 4-channel DRAMless SSD that is every bit as fast as the fastest DRAM-fortified 8-channel SSDs ever made? Unprecedented. And not only is our DRAMless 4-channel contender just as fast, even more incredibly, it is just as powerful, delivering gaming and real-world performance that is also on par with the fastest and most powerful 8-channel SSDs ever made.”

Also from TweakTown, Kosta Andreadis wrote: “… Phison’s E37T controller feels like an oasis in a desert of AI and data center products. Even setting aside the current market reality, it’s a game-changer. The Phison E37T controller is an engineering feat worth celebrating, as it powers the first DRAMless SSDs capable of fully maxing out their PCIe Gen5 interfaces, delivering speeds over 14.9 GB/s. And the E37T does so while drawing less than 5W of power. Throw in impressive random read and write speeds, and it’s a Gen5 SSD controller that truly makes Gen5 feel like it lives up to its promise.”

Tom’s Hardware reported that Phison “also had performance benchmarks for its new DRAM-less PCIe 5.0 SSD controller, the E37T, on display, demonstrating similar performance to its popular flagship E28 controller while sipping nearly half the power, setting the stage for a new wave of power-efficient SSDs that will run cool.”

And TechRadar featured an article about the E37T titled “The first DRAM-less SSD controller to max out PCIe Gen5 is also a power efficiency champion in the making.”

Distinguished guests visit Phison at COMPUTEX

While the Phison booth was continually overflowing with event attendees, we also received some exciting visitors.

On June 5, Taiwan Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim visited the Phison booth accompanied by a delegation of government officials and distinguished guests. During the visit, CEO KS Pua personally guided the delegation through Phison’s latest AI and storage innovations, followed by a gift exchange and commemorative photographs.

The visit further highlighted Phison’s role as one of Taiwan’s leading technology innovators and its growing influence in the global AI ecosystem.

Other distinguished guests during the event included the Deputy Mayor of Taichung, which is a major hub of semiconductor manufacturing. The Phison team was also able to showcase our aiDAPTIV solution to the Premier of the Executive Yuan, China’s highest administrative body, when he visited InnoVEX, a specialized startup and innovation exhibition held in Taipei at the same time as COMPUTEX.

A booth built around people

While COMPUTEX is ultimately about technology, one of the defining characteristics of the Phison booth remained the people behind the innovations.

Throughout all four days of the exhibition, CEO KS Pua maintained a constant presence on the show floor, meeting customers, engaging partners, greeting visitors, and frequently stopping for photographs. His hands-on participation and accessibility helped create an atmosphere that felt uniquely Phison.

Phison CEO KS Pua (center) was on hand to meet and greet attendees throughout the event.

The booth also welcomed a steady stream of domestic and international media. Phison’s marketing team and company spokespersons worked tirelessly throughout the week, conducting interviews, leading booth tours, and supporting countless photography and video sessions.

Adding to the experience was our popular “Ichiban Kuji” lucky draw activity. Rather than testing visitors’ existing knowledge, the Phison team encouraged participants to explore the booth and discover answers hidden within the showcased technologies and product displays. Successful participants took home exclusive Phison merchandise ranging from caps, tote bags, refrigerator magnets, and limited-edition Kuai Kuai snacks to highly sought-after T-shirts and Phison polo shirts.

The result was a booth that remained energetic from opening to closing each day, making Phison one of the most talked-about and frequently visited destinations throughout COMPUTEX 2026.

From award-winning enterprise SSDs and sovereign AI platforms to PCIe Gen6 infrastructure and next-generation mobile storage, COMPUTEX 2026 highlighted how Phison continues to evolve beyond traditional storage.

Guided by the vision of “Evolving Data Storage Intelligence,” the company remains committed to transforming deep storage expertise into intelligent technologies that power tomorrow’s AI systems, digital infrastructure, and data-driven innovations.

To learn more about the products and solutions we showcased at COMPUTEX 2026, contact a Phison sales representative today.