The consolidation of the storage industry in the 2010s has injected every major SSD supplier with an in-house team designing SSD controllers, leaving the market with only a few independent SSD controller makers. These three makers — Maxio, Phison, and Silicon Motion (SMI) — are thriving, and their businesses are growing rather rapidly.
At Computex 2025, we sat down with Wallace C. Kou, the founder and chief executive officer of Silicon Motion. Silicon Motion is one of the leading independent developers of SSD controllers, and we discussed the company's strategy as well as industry trends.
