[Featured Stock] Padu Strengthens on Nvidia Blackwall GB Certification and SK Hynix Resuming 'Meta' Supply

Pado is on the rise. Western Digital has received NVIDIA's Blackwall GB certification from NVIDIA, and SK Hynix is also reported to supply SSD products to Meta, which seems to have had an impact. Both companies are supplied with products from Pado.

As of 1:48 PM on the 15th, Pado was trading at 19,220 KRW, up 2,120 KRW (12.40%) from the previous trading day.

According to foreign media, Western Digital Corp announced that its PCIe® Gen5 DC SN861 E.1S enterprise-grade NVMe™ SSD has been certified to support the NVIDIA® GB200 NVL72 rack-scale system.

Pado supplies its ‘FC5161’ controller for the SN861 product. Pado’s ‘FC5161’ controller connects to the system via a PCIe 5.0 interface. It features support for the OCPP (Open Compute Project) Data Center NVMe SSD 2.0 specification and FDP (Flexible Data Placement) functionality.

Additionally, on the same day, a media outlet reported that SK Hynix will supply enterprise SSD (eSSD) products to Meta data centers. To this end, SK Hynix signed a contract worth 3,082.32 million KRW to purchase SSD controllers from Pado, a domestic semiconductor design specialist (fabless) company. This was disclosed in a public announcement on the 7th of this month, leading the industry to speculate that the domestic semiconductor manufacturer is SK Hynix.

The ‘NAND flash,’ a component of the eSSD, is provided by SK Hynix, while the ‘controller,’ which simultaneously accesses multiple NANDs in parallel to determine the data processing order, is handled by Pado. SK Hynix attaches Pado’s controller to the NAND to produce finished products, which are then supplied to Meta as part of their business operations.

Notably, Pado obtained certification related to data center SSD controllers from Meta in 2021. It is also known that Pado has continued technical cooperation with Meta since then.