In the wave of edge intelligence upgrades, as products are continuously evolving toward miniaturization and high integration, the device systems are confronted with dual challenges of physical space compression and surging computing power. Over the past years, BIWIN has invested significant effort in advancing research and development in storage technologies and advanced packaging and testing processes, providing it with competitive advantages in delivering tailored, miniaturized, and highly integrated storage solutions, including a diverse product portfolio, patented proprietary technologies, and a robust manufacturing and supply chain system.
Notably, the BIWIN-launched EP410 BGA SSD, with its innovative architectural design, exemplifies a breakthrough solution for edge devices upgrades by offering three key capabilities: a compact and lightweight design, outstanding performance, and high reliability. While offering form factors as compact as those of embedded chips to meet the rigorous dimension requirements of portable devices, these SSDs are able to deliver superior performance and flexible capacity options compared to UFS/eMMC standards.
Ultra-Thin, Compact Design to Maximize System Spatial Efficiency
The increasing inference frequencies across smartphones and PCs have made the large capacity a fundamental configuration. Meanwhile, in order to deliver optimized user experience and robust operation under complicated environments, the terminal manufacturers are striving to achieve maximized hardware efficiency and capacity utilization within constrained system dimensions.
Aligned with the trends in product iteration, BGA SSD EP410 is equipped with advanced packaging processes such as 16-layer die stacking and 40μm ultra-thin die, realizing the compact form factor measuring only 16×20×1.4mm—merely 1/14 the volume of conventional M.2 2280 SSDs (80×22×3.5mm). Surprisingly, it’s able to deliver uncompromising capacity up to 2TB, supporting the smooth image recognition and natural language processing in edge devices and free of capacity limitations. The adopted packaging processes not only reduces board footprint, providing more design flexibility for terminal manufacturers, but also enhances electrical performance to accommodate greater data throughput, enabling device manufacturers to develop more streamlined, competitively advantageous products.
Uncompromised Performance, Establishing a Robust Foundation for Edge Intelligence Inference
In terms of performance, BIWIN has harnessed its integrated R&D and packaging and testing business model, along with the optimization and tuning of firmware algorithm, to satisfy the critical demands for error correction, data security and integrity in storage products across various application scenarios.
The BIWIN EP410 BGA SSD is compatible with PCIe 4.0 interface and NVMe protocol, with its sequential read/write speed reaching 7350MB/s and 6600MB/s respectively, far surpassing the theoretical bandwidth capability of UFS 4.0. Incorporated with self-developed flash memory management algorithm and dynamic bandwidth allocation technology, BIWIN BGA SSD has demonstrated excellent bandwidth stability, qualifying for edge intelligence devices’ access to high-speed data and transfers of high-load requirements with low latency, as well as the responsive handling of sophisticated intelligent tasks. From the application perspective, BIWIN BGA SSD has been included in the list of Google approved suppliers; on the compatibility front, it offers a cross-platform advantage, compatible with a variety of mainstream SoC solutions, which simplifies the design and introduction processes for clients.
Intelligent Thermal Control and Reliability Design, Ensuring the Stable Operation of Critical Applications
With the characteristics of chip miniaturization and high integration becoming more pronounced, the increases in power consumption and thermal output have presented challenges for devices’ operational stability and lifespan. Considering this, BIWIN EP410 BGA SSD has further strengthened its reliability design, verification, analysis and management processes. In order to ensure efficient heat dissipation, the product is engineered with DRAM-less architecture with intelligent thermal throttling, as well as in-house LDPC, dynamic and static wear leveling, bad block management and multi-environmental adaptability, contributing to significantly improving the data integrity and security, ensuring long-term stable operations and preventing disconnection during critical usage scenarios including gaming, productivity applications, and content creation.
Having been subjected to BIWIN’s thorough testing procedures, including electrical performance, SI, application, compatibility, and reliability testings, the products have been validated with their MTBF exceeding 1,500,000 hours and operating temperature ranging from 0℃ to 70℃, enabling the flagship intelligent terminals, for example the 2-in-1 laptops, UAVs, automotive IVI, to catch the wave of edge intelligence upgrades.
Conclusion
From the successful mass production of its first PCIe BGA SSD in 2018 to the latest generation EP410 BGA SSD featuring the PCIe Gen4 x4 interface, BIWIN’s continuously evolving products demonstrate its deep expertise in miniaturization and high-integration technologies, while also highlighting its visionary foresight in the ecosystem of edge intelligence. As AI and storage technologies progress toward deeper ecological integration, BIWIN will further leverage its early-mover advantages in mobile terminal storage chips and extend this advantage into the edge intelligence era. Whether in hardware design, software optimization, or ecosystem construction, BIWIN remains committed to advancing industry progress and delivering increasingly intelligent, efficient, and reliable storage solutions to users.