Phison demonstrated its E26 controller with PCI Express 5.0 at Flash Memory Summit 2022. Ryzen 7000 processor and Micron 232-layer 3D NAND were also utilized.

First, a CrystalDiskMark snapshot shows a performance example with 10 GB/s sequential read and write. Phison demonstrated 12 GB/s in May; the products could even breach 13.5 GB/s. Tom's Hardware states that the system was outfitted with an AMD Ryzen 7000 CPU. 100-000000593-20 Y is the new Zen 4 processor with 6 cores and 12 threads. The engineering sample in a contentious CPU benchmark database has the same identification. This is a pre-production Ryzen 5 7600X processor. Micron's freshly mass-produced 232-layer 3D NAND will be used on the SSD prototype. Since it's intended to be faster than the same manufacturer's 176-layer NAND, the demo is disappointing. Phison said this combo needs testing and optimization. The "bare" M.2 2280 SSD demo lacked a cooler for maximum performance.

In September, Phison E26 PCIe 5.0 SSDs will debut alongside AMD's new desktop platform. The new AM5 architecture with PCIe 5.0 is a promotion / sales platform for this new technology.

Let's hope RND4K performance is risen as well, as it worries us a little that these tests are left out intentionally.

Phison E26 with Micron 232-layer NAND with Ryzen 5 7600X based PC Runs 10GB/sec and higher