. this article relies too much on references to primary sources . please improve this by adding secondary or tertiary sources . july 2010 learn how and when to remove this template message phison electronic corporation type public traded as gtsm 8299 industry solid state drives founded november 2000 headquarters hsinchu taiwan key people khein seng pua board chairman aw yong chee kong president products flash memory controllers website www.phison.com phison electronics corporation is a taiwanese public electronics company that primarily manufactures controllers for nand flash memory chips . these are integrated into flash based products such as usb flash drives memory cards and solid state drives ssds . 1 some sony microvault usb sticks and verbatim store n go usb sticks use phison usb to flash micro controller ics . phison claims to have produced the earliest usb flash removable disk dubbed pen drive in may 2001 . 2 phison is a member of the open nand flash interface working group onfi which aims to standardize the hardware interface to nand flash chips . in early october 2014 security researchers adam caudill and brandon wilson publicly released source code to a firmware attack against phison usb controller ics . 3 this code implements the badusb exploit described in july 2014 at the black hat briefings conference . references edit phison about us . phison . retrieved 2011 06 12 . phison about us milestones . phison . may 2001 . retrieved 2011 06 12 . wired the unpatchable malware that infects usbs is now on the loose . wired . 2 october 2014 . external links edit official site in english v t e solid state drives key terminology encryption ecc flash file system flash memory slc mlc flash memory controller garbage collection iops mb s memory wear open channel ssd over provisioning read disturb secure erase solid state storage trim command wear leveling write amplification flash manufacturers im flash technologies micron samsung sk hynix joint venture between sandisk and toshiba controllers independent greenliant systems indilinx now part of toshiba ocz jmicron marvell phison pmc sierra sandforce now part of seagate smi captive fusion io hgst stec intel micron samsung seagate toshiba ocz ssd manufacturers list of solid state drive manufacturers interfaces advanced host controller interface ahci fibre channel fc nvm express nvme pci express pcie sata express serial ata sata serial attached scsi sas universal serial bus usb configurations hdd form factors msata m. 2 pci express expansion card thunderbolt mini displayport usb type c u. 2 related organizations incits jedec jc 42 jc 64.8 onfi nvmhci work group usb if sata io sff committee snia sssi t10 scsi t11 fc t13 ata category this technology article about a corporation or company is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e this article about a taiwanese corporation or company is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title phison & oldid 735706393 categories electronics companies of taiwanfabless semiconductor companiescomputer memorytechnological company stubstaiwanese company stubshidden categories articles lacking reliable references from july 2010all articles lacking reliable referencesall stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 22 august 2016 at 15 32 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view