SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Designing high-end video gaming consoles and devices isn’t all fun and games. The technical challenges of increasingly sophisticated gaming have created new demands for power, performance, and data management, according to experts at Phison Electronics Corp. (TPEX: 8299), a global leader in NAND flash controller integrated circuits and storage solutions.
With the advent of 4K video, games stream more frames per second. Creating graphics with ray tracing instead of rasterization produces far more realistic 3D effects and higher levels of detail. As game file sizes have grown, so have performance demands. Internally, gaming devices must manage new workloads, requiring updates in storage and memory.
“Developing a new AAA game title costs millions of dollars, and the storage architecture is decided early in the process because it’s a…
