Pado, US Subsidiary 'Ieum' Additional Investment... Aiming to Expand CXL Business

Fostering Ieum for CXL Research and Development

FADU announced on the 27th that it is expanding its Compute Express Link (CXL) business by investing an additional approximately 6.3 billion KRW in its subsidiary eeum.

eeum was established by FADU in Silicon Valley, USA, in October last year. It is researching and developing semiconductor products based on CXL, the next-generation data center technology standard.

CXL is a next-generation standard designed to transmit data quickly and efficiently between various semiconductors installed in data centers. It has recently gained attention alongside the growth of artificial intelligence (AI) data centers.

Following its first investment in October last year, FADU made a second investment in eeum this time. This is to accelerate the development of CXL switch semiconductors, which are core to the CXL system.

The company views CXL as the most important technology in future data centers and plans to develop eeum as a hub for CXL research and development going forward.

A FADU representative said, "The CXL switch will be a key semiconductor connecting solid-state drives (SSD), DRAM, graphics processing units (GPU), neural processing units (NPU), and central processing units (CPU) in data centers," adding, "We will lead the semiconductor market based on data centers by making the CXL switch semiconductor our main product."