GoKawiilFADU unveils FS-SSD that embeds the filesystem in the drive's controller
Seoul-based SSD controller maker FADU introduced File-Semantic SSD (FS-SSD) at the 2026 OCP Global Summit, a design that moves filesystem logic into the SSD so GPUs, DPUs, and NICs can access files without a host filesystem, block layer, or storage-server CPU. In FADU's preliminary NFS-over-NVMe test on its FC6161 Gen6 controller, throughput held around 460,000 ops/s whether the server used 16 cores or just one, far outperforming Linux NFS-over-RDMA, which dropped from about 150,000 to 40,000 ops/s. FADU says the technology is still under active development, with Gen6-host results expected by Q1 2027 and partner samples by Q3 2027.