About Phison Electronics
Phison Electronics designs controllers for NAND flash memory, along with firmware and storage products built around them. Its controllers are used in USB flash drives, memory cards and solid-state drives, and the company says it is the largest independent NAND controller supplier. Because it is fabless and independent of any flash maker, drive vendors can pair its controllers with NAND from several suppliers. Phison was founded in 2000 by K.S. Pua and others, and is headquartered in Miaoli, Taiwan.
Phison Electronics was founded in 2000 and is based in Miaoli, Taiwan. It is listed under ASICs, Custom Silicon, Memory & Storage. Its shares trade as 8299.TWO on TPEX.
Compute Technologies
- ASICs
What Phison Electronics works on
ASICs
An ASIC, or application-specific integrated circuit, is a chip designed to do one job or a narrow set of jobs. Its circuits are fixed when the chip is made. A CPU can run any program; an ASIC does what it was designed for and nothing else.
Custom Silicon
Custom silicon means a company designs its own chips for its own products or data centers instead of buying standard parts. The chip is made by a foundry such as TSMC, but the design belongs to the customer.
Memory & Storage
Memory and storage hold the data that processors work on. Memory such as DRAM is fast and loses its contents when power is removed. Storage such as flash (NAND) is slower, cheaper per bit and keeps data without power.
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