- FADU secures the supply agreements of the SSD controller with two hyperscalers and plans to sign a third
- Meta considered as probable early adopter after appearing with Fadu at FMS 2025 Keynote
- The Korean company describes the PCIe 6.0 roadmap with a capacity of 512 TB and the speeds of 28 GB / s
The South Korea fadu has announced that it has signed agreements to provide its new generation SSD controllers to two of the largest cloud service operators in the world.
Korea Herald Reports at a press conference in Seoul marking the company’s 10th anniversary, CEO Lee Ji-Hyo revealed the news, saying: “We were confirmed for mass production supply for two of the four global hyperscalers.”
“We are also in talks with another hyperscaler, and we expect to finalize this agreement by the end of this year,” he added, “in two to three years, we are convinced that we will provide the four large companies.”
Sierra controller
The four hyperscalers in question are of course AWS, Google, Microsoft and Meta – and although Fadu did not say what are under contract, Meta is widely considered a solid candidate to be one of them after being appeared alongside the company during the recent Conference Future of Memory and Storage 2025.
During this event, Fadu unveiled its PCIe 6.0 controller, the code name Sierra, which supports capacities up to 512 TB and sequential speeds of 28 GB / s.
The product offers random reading performance of 6.9 million PIO while operating under 9W.
Chosunbiz At a time when Meta engineer, Ross Stenfort, shared the opening phase with Lee while Fadu introduced the controller and the new detailed energy monitoring features developed with industry partners to reduce costs in large -scale data centers.
Lee took the opportunity during the speech to also highlight the long -term vision of the company.
“Since our establishment in 2015, Fadu has devoted the last 10 years to technological development, trying to create the fastest and most innovative SSD controllers in the world targeting the world market, and we have validated our technological prowess with global customers,” he said.
“We will direct the storage market with SSDs that offer greater capacity, faster performance and higher efficiency, as required by the AI era.”
Fadu sent its Gen5 controller at the end of 2024 and expects its Gen6 line to be launched in 2026.
