South Korean fabless startup Dnotitia is launching an integrated storage solution business for generative artificial intelligence.
The company held a press conference on the 3rd at Columbus Space in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, to announce its plans. Storage refers to devices that store data. In conventional AI systems, data stored in storage must be transferred to the main unit one by one for verification, causing problems such as slow response times. Dnotitia has developed a system that combines its proprietary acceleration semiconductor "VDPU" with storage to directly search and analyze information.
"We plan to announce our first storage product utilizing VDPU in the second half of this year," said Dnotitia CEO Chung Moo-kyoung. "Generative AI includes external knowledge, long-term memory, and short-term memory," Chung added. "Such large-scale memory must ultimately be implemented through storage systems."
CEO Chung emphasized that since Dnotitia's storage system is based on VDPU, its business will not be affected by recent prosecution indictments. "The technology included in the indictment relates to NPUs for model computation, but Dnotitia's core is VDPU for search computation—the two technologies are fundamentally different in nature," he said. "There is absolutely no reason for us to use NPU technology, and there is no impact on our ongoing commercialization roadmap or fundraising."
Dnotitia is currently finalizing its Series A investment round of approximately 50 billion to 100 billion won. The investment is expected to exceed the target amount.