Fadu, Biwin to co-develop SSDs for Chinese market

Fadu and Biwin will collaborate to develop storage products for the Chinese market, including enterprise SSDs and consumer-focused storage products, as well as build manufacturing and testing facilities in China.

Fadu's booth at FMS 2024 in Silicon Valley [FADU]

Fadu, a Korean supplier of solid-state drive (SSD) controllers, will collaborate with memory and storage developer Biwin to develop storage products for the Chinese market.

Under a memorandum of understanding signed at the Future of Memory and Storage (FMS) trade show in Silicon Valley last week, the two companies will co-develop enterprise SSDs marketed to Chinese cloud and server companies as well as consumer-focused storage products.

Fadu and Biwin have also agreed to build manufacturing and testing facilities in China for the SSDs.

An SSD controller serves as the brain of an SSD, distributing workloads and determining the order in which tasks should be done.

Fadu expanded its global footprint in the storage space earlier this year by agreeing to co-develop flexible data placement (FDP) for enterprise SSDs with Western Digital.

Anu Murthy, Fadu's vice president of marketing, delivered a keynote speech with Western Digital's Erik Spanneut and Meta's Ross Stenfort at this year's FMS. Murth outlined the three companies' plans to partner further on storage technology.

Fadu CEO Lee Ji-hyo had originally been set to make the speech in Silicon Valley, but he was unable to after Korea's financial regulators imposed a travel ban on allegations that he'd inflated the company's price when going public on Korea's tech-heavy Kosdaq in 2023.

BY JIN EUN-SOO [jin.eunsoo@joongang.co.kr]