CES: Enmotus and Phison Electronics Demonstrated QLC Enhancing Technology

Enmotus, Inc. and Phison Electronics Corp. have jointly demonstrated Enmotus’ performance enhancing MiDrive SSD technology.

By blending static SLC for primary storage, with QLC NAND on the same consumer NVMe device, MiDrive SSDs deliver the performance of high end SSDs while allowing OEMs to meet the price points and capacities demanded by users.

Unlike current QLC implementations that utilize a portion of the QLC to mimic an SLC cache, Enmotus’ Machine Intelligence technology keeps active data/games in the SLC and stores infrequently used data on the QLC – automatically.

In addition to performance and cost benefits, MiDrive increases SSD endurance by minimizing the write amplification associated with caching, which allows cost effective QLC to be deployed in volume notebook applications. MiDrive NVMe SSDs are sampling to OEMs.

“Phison worked closely with Enmotus integrating Enmotus’ technology with our controllers,” said K.S Pua, CEO, Phison. “Positioning MiDrive between the niche high performance consumer SSD market and cost conscious users presents a tremendous market opportunity for Phison and Enmotus,” added K.S.

“MiDrive addresses not only the performance and endurance challenges of QLC, but future technologies as well. As flash manufacturers race to achieve price parity with HDDs, the endurance of next gen flash technology such as Penta or 5 layer flash is expected to get worse,” said Andy Mills, CEO, Enmotus. “The Machine Intelligence behind MiDrive solves this problem by enabling QLC and beyond to be deployed in applications without compromising warranty or longevity specs.”