Accompanying the S10 is 19nm Toggle-Mode NAND Flash by Toshiba, but only a most 256MB DDR3-1600 cache. Their latest S10 controller is capable of keeping up with the big boys, as it features a quad core processor featuring a new load-balancing system, eight NAND channels, and TLC support. Phison is not a household name but they have been making NAND Flash products for over a decade, just not on the consumer side of things as their controllers are found mostly in low-cost and OEM drives. This year Kingston has turned to yet another company, Phison, to provide the brains for their newest high-end consumer SATA SSD, the HyperX Savage.
As Kingston prefers to offer a broad range of devices at varying price/performance points, this strategy allows them to pick and choose the technology suitable for each SKU, so there is some method to this madness. While their competitors usually stick to one or two models, varying the cache and type of NAND used to differentiate their lineups, crack open a random Kingston SSD from their product history, and you might find a controller chip from Intel, Toshiba, JMicron, Marvell, or LSI/SandForce. Compared to most solid-state drive manufacturers, Kingston has shown a surprising lack of bias as to what controller goes into their drives.
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