If there's one thing that never bodes well for our little PC gaming community, it's a monopoly. That might sound a little odd given our humble hobby, but hear me out. We've seen it happen time and time again. One company dominates the market in a certain field for one, two, three years, and all of a sudden, progress stops, R&D falls off a cliff, and we start seeing overall bland products debut with minor incremental improvements gen-on-gen. Long gone are the groundbreaking revolutionary engineering step-ups, designed to keep that hungry competition at bay. It's just 5% better efficiency, 10% more speed, 5% higher price. You get the gist.
Let's be fair, there's no arguing about it; Phison, for SSD controllers at least, has all the cards right now (the market dominance, that is). Its controller tech has dominated the PCIe space for some time, and mostly because it delivers exceptional performance across the board. It doesn't matter if it's last gen with the Crucial T500 or current gen with the stupidly efficient Corsair MP700 Elite; the majority of the best SSDs out there, right now, today, feature Phison controllers, certainly the PCIe 5.0 ones anyway. That's just a fact.
