Jihyo Lee is the CEO and co-founder of FADU, a leading fabless semiconductor company revolutionizing data center and storage solutions for next-generation computing architectures. Under his leadership, FADU has become a hub of innovation, bringing together top industry talent to drive advancements in technology. Before founding FADU, Jihyo was a partner at Bain & Company, where he honed his strategic expertise. He is also a successful serial entrepreneur, having built and led multiple ventures across the technology, telecom, and energy sectors. Jihyo holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Industrial Engineering from Seoul National University. His unique combination of academic excellence, entrepreneurial spirit, and leadership experience makes him a visionary in the tech industry.
The explosive growth of AI and machine learning has transformed modern data centers, demanding unprecedented storage performance, power efficiency, and thermal management. Addressing these challenges requires deep ecosystem collaboration to solve problems at an incredible scale, enabling rapid adoption and deployment.
Ross Stenfort, an industry veteran and OCP Storage Project Lead will explore trends and identify areas of focus for the industry as High Capacity QLC and observability continue to drive key innovations within the flash market. This includes the importance of leveraging new techniques to accomplish novel goals. These critical innovations show how NAND based products are evolving quickly to suit the needs of the modern data center, which has dramatically changed in the last 2 years.
FADU is committed to innovation and will unveil its highly anticipated Gen6 controller and SSD lineup, showcasing definitive leadership in performance and power efficiency. Purpose-built for relentless AI workloads, FADU’s architecture delivers industry-leading performance-per-watt. Furthermore, FADU will outline its vision for developing core storage system technologies explicitly optimized to accelerate the entire AI pipeline and meet skyrocketing infrastructure demands.
FADU shows how silicon innovation and ecosystem collaboration will fuel the next generation of sustainable, hyper-efficient AI data centers.