The company is an old acquaintance in the world of NAND units but in recent years it has turned its back on the high-end market. Now, the company wants to change this with the new PCIe PS5012-E12 controller. According to the company, it has started mass production of the chip, which we already saw at the beginning of the year and has already completed more than 20 “projects”. We’ve also seen one of these projects pass by CES: Patriot’s Viper M.2.
The PS5012-E12 works on the NVME 1.3 protocol that is baked on TSMC’s 28nm process and is expected to reach speeds of 3450MB/s and 150MB/s for reading and writing over four PCs at 3.0 lanes. For 4K random read and write operations, the controller should be able to perform up to 600,000 operations per second (IOPS). This is done via 8 channels and 32 CE lines.
The chip can hold up to 8 TB and supports external Thunderbolt 3 SSDs. The PS5012-E12 will be available to its partners in three versions: the “normal” PS5012-E12 for high-end SSDs, the PS5012-E12C for midrange devices and the PS5012-E12DC for the business market.