“Every hardware and software outfit right now is like, ‘You get AI, you get AI, you get AI…everyone gets AI!’. There are product segments where an AI infusion makes a lot of sense, though, and Phison sees fast solid state drive (SSD) storage as being one of them. As a result, it’s showcasing its AI-infused E28 SSD controller at Computex where it’s already racked up a ‘Best Choice Golden Award’, which is the highest available.
What makes the E28 controller so special? Summed up, it’s the world’s first SSD controller with built-in AI processing. Built on TSMC 6-nanometer manufacturing process, the E28 controller has the ability to accelerate AI models by leveraging Phison’s aiDAPTIV+ 2.0 architecture. What this does is segment training data across a tiered caching system.
“In real-world AI training scenarios, the results are striking. A workstation equipped with four NVIDIA RTX Ada-generation GPUs training the Llama 70B perimeter models achieved 519 tokens per second using aiDAPTIV+ 1.0. After upgrading to aiDAPTIV+ 2.0 with the E28 SSD, performance surged to 971 tokens per second—the performance improvement is comparable to 187% of that of aiDAPTIV+ 1.0, showcasing Phison’s continued innovation in computational efficiency,” Phison explains in a blog post.
There’s also a rather large claimed cost savings—according to Phison, it’s fancy AI-infused E28 controller can reduce AI model fine-tuning costs by up to 90%, making it a cost-effective and scalable solution for edge AI and enterprise AI deployment.”- hothardware.com
Source: hothardware.com
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