Data center semiconductor company FADU, led by CEO Ehyun Nam, announced on the 15th that it revealed the world's first 'File-Semantic SSD' (FS-SSD) at the 2026 OCP Global Summit in San Jose Convention Center, California, U.S. The company also showcased storage solutions optimized for AI data centers along with its vision.
The OCP Global Summit is the official annual conference of the Open Compute Project (OCP), the world's largest open data center technology community, founded in 2011. This year's event featured 'Scaling Innovation for the AI Era' as its theme. FADU, an OCP member since 2022, showcased its new storage technology at its own dedicated booth.
FS-SSD is a new type of storage in which the SSD directly understands and manages files instead of block addresses. By equipping file processing firmware on FADU's Gen 6 SSD controller, tasks such as file search, permissions, and file-to-address translation, traditionally handled by the server's CPU and operating system, are performed inside the SSD. Accelerators such as GPUs and DPUs can read and write files directly, bypassing the CPU. This removes the CPU, memory, and software layers on the storage server side, drastically reducing power and costs.
At the booth, a live demonstration of the FC6161 controller on a 16 TB SSD showed performance up to 2.5 times higher than the previous Gen 5 controller. Total power consumption is below 28 watts when active and under 5 watts when idle. CEO Ehyun Nam said, "With our technological capabilities in controllers at the core, we will leap forward as a leading AI storage solution company."
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