Well-known Taiwanese developer of popular flash memory controllers Phison Electronics that all of its current and latest controllers support memory chips from the Chinese company Yangtze Memory Technologies (YMTC). Phison and Yangtze Memory have been cooperating since 2016, when the latter was just created.
Phison controllers have been tested for compatibility with YMTC's first 32-layer 3D NAND chips and have been comprehensively tested for compatibility with the Chinese manufacturer's current mass-produced 64-layer 3D NAND memory. Moreover, Phison has established a working group to design controllers compatible with the upcoming 128-layer YMTC memory.
Also in production are Phison controllers compatible with Chinese 3D NAND (for PCIe SSD), PS5012 (for SATA SSD), PS3112 (for UFS drives), PS8318 (for eMMC modules) and even PS8229 controllers for unique NM Card memory cards ( NanoMemory Card) by Huawei. Finally, Phison controllers will enable the release of SD memory cards and USB sticks on 64-layer YMTC flash memory.
Phison notes that although YMTC is a newcomer to the flash memory chip market, it has proven the quality of its products and the right to enter the market as part of various storage systems. This allows Phison to look forward to further deepening its relationship with the Chinese 3D NAND manufacturer and thus promises to expand its customer base.
Phison and YMTC's joint venture into the storage market will begin with consumer-grade devices and gradually expand into solutions for the industrial, enterprise, server markets and other high-performance solutions. In fact, we are seeing a move towards legalizing YMTC memory in markets outside of China. So far, the Chinese company cannot even dream of conquering foreign markets - it does not have such large production volumes, but it intends to move in this direction.
Source: 3dnews.ru