Phison's world-first 6nm AI computing SSD solution wins Best Choice Golden Award at Computex

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Phison has just secured itself the highest distinction at Computex 2025, being awarded the Best Choice Golden Award for its groundbreaking innovation in its E28: the world's first 6nm AI-computing-capable SSD controller and module.

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The Best Choice Award is the official and only award of Computex, hand-picked by a jury of experts from academia, industry, and government. The Golden Award is the highest distinction, recognizing products that demonstrate exceptional innovation, market potential, and industry impact. Phison's win this year confirms its global leadership in both storage and AI infrastructure innovation.

Large Language Models (LLMs) continue to scale bigger and bigger, driving the demand for GPUs and HBM through the roof, which has created a hardware bottleneck for edge AI development. This is where Phison steps in, launching its aiDAPTIV+ technology in 2024, introducing its patented aiDAPTIVLink architecture. This solution segments training data across a tiered caching system, using the aiDAPTIV+ AI-Series to allow LLMs to fine-tune train using existing hardware resources -- breaking through conventional memory computing limitations.

Phison followed this up with the launch of its new aiDAPTIV+ 2.0 in 2025, fully integrating with the award-winning E28 AI computational SSD, with this solution transforming traditional SSDs from passive storage devices into computational storage modules, significantly boosting overall system performance for AI workloads.

How does this stack up in the real world? In real-world AI training scenarios, a workstation powered by 4 x NVIDIA RTX Ada GPUs training the Llama 70B parameter models achieved 519 tokens per second using aiDAPTIV+ 1.0, but after upgrading to an E28 SSD and aiDAPTIV+ 2.0, performance skyrocketed to 971 tokens per second, marking a performance improvement of 187% over aiDAPTIV+ 1.0, showcasing Phison's continued innovation in computational efficiency.

Phison's internal benchmarks reveal that the Phison E28 solution can reduce AI model fine-tuning costs by up to 90%, offering a highly cost-effective and scalable solution for edge AI and enterprise AI deployment. Phison says with its strong performance-to-cost ratio, the E28 expands deployments flexibility and use case diversity across the global AI ecosystem.

K.S. Pua, CEO of Phison Electronics, said: "We are honored to receive the Best Choice Golden Award. This recognition affirms Phison's long-standing commitment to innovation in NAND controller and storage integration. The E28 is the world's first SSD solution with native AI computational capabilities-redefining the boundary between storage and AI compute. This achievement marks a major step forward in making AI more accessible beyond data centers, toward true AI democratization".