InnoGrit is committed to advancing storage technology for the AI era and other big data applications. Through innovative integrated circuit (IC) and system solutions, we address the growing challenges of data storage, movement, and access across artificial intelligence, machine learning, and other data-intensive workloads. By delivering breakthrough performance, power efficiency, reliability, and security, we help overcome the limitations of traditional data architectures and enable a new generation of intelligent products and services for consumers, enterprises, and data centers.
Our high-performance, low-power turnkey SSD controller solutions provide the foundation for scalable, future-ready AI infrastructure. Designed to support next-generation workloads, InnoGrit solutions help customers maximize system value while reducing both capital and operating costs. We offer a flexible business model ranging from SDK support to full turnkey (FTK) solutions and reference designs, empowering partners to accelerate innovation and speed time to market. Built with advanced LDPC technology, end-to-end data protection, and support for key security standards, our ICs are engineered to deliver the performance, resilience, and trust required by modern AI and enterprise environments.
Backed by high-quality products and professional service, InnoGrit has earned strong market recognition and established trusted partnerships with leading global computer manufacturers, semiconductor suppliers, and flash vendors. As AI continues to reshape the digital world, InnoGrit is powering the storage foundation that makes intelligent infrastructure faster, more efficient, and more secure.
CoreTechnology
High Speed PCIe Gen5
PCIe Gen5 SSD controllers provide high speed storage for next generation data center and personal computing
Ultra-Low Latency
Proprietary technology reduces latency to 10us from existing products
Integrated Data Processing
Jointly optimize data storage and transport, and reduce TCO for distributed data storage system
Data Security
End to end data protection and support for all key security standards
Management Team
Zining Wu, Ph.D.Co-founder, Chairman of the Board
Before founding InnoGrit, Dr. Zining Wu served as Chief Technology Officer of Marvell Technology Group, responsible for overseeing all technical aspects of the company including the company’s technical vision, strategic initiatives, directing R&D project execution, and future growth. Dr. Wu joined Marvell in 1999. During his tenure, Dr. Wu led the engineering team that delivered innovative multi-generation Hard Disk Drive (HDD) and solid-state drive (SSD) controllers with annual sales over a billion dollars. Under his leadership, Marvell launched multiple industry-record products, including the world’s first low-density parity-check (LDPC) code based SSD controller, which tripled the reliability of NAND flash; the first native PCIe SSD controller for modular scalability, raising the bar in data storage by delivering an unprecedented level of I/O performance; and the world’s first NVRAM-powered PCIe SSD cache solution providing industry-leading performance for cloud computing data center. Dr. Wu also served as Vice President of Engineering for wireless communication SoCs, where his team delivered the industry’s best-in-class 802.11ac chips.
Dr. Wu holds over 280 U.S. patents, has published 8 technical papers and a book Coding and Iterative Detection for Magnetic Recording Channels, 2000.
Dr. Wu holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Tsinghua University, a master’s and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
Dishi LaiCo-Founder, Vice President of SoC Engineering
Prior to InnoGrit, Mr. Lai was Senior Director of Engineering at Toshiba America responsible for the front-end architecture and logic design of the Enterprise PCIe SSD Controller. Previously, he was Senior Design Manager at Marvell Semiconductor responsible for the storage bridges and Host Bus Adaptor (HBA) shipping over 50 million products. He was also the lead designer for Marvell’s first PCIe SSD controller, which was used in the first generation of Apple iBook with SSD.
Mr. Lai holds 3 U.S. patents and with 7 patent applications pending.
Mr. Lai holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in Applied Physics from Tsinghua University, and a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Rochester.
Jie Chen, Ph.D.Co-Founder, Vice President of Data Storage Technologies
Dr. Chen has over 12 years of research and development experience in wireline communication and data storage system, with deep knowledge in high speed ethernet transceiver and low power SSD controller architect and design optimization. Prior to InnoGrit, Dr. Chen was Senior Staff Design Manager for data storage products at Marvell. He specializes in microarchitecture analysis, design, and physical implementation of advanced digital signal processing (DSP) and error correction coding (ECC) algorithms (such as LDPC and BCH) for data storage systems. Dr. Chen and his team successfully delivered the world’s first low power and low cost SSD controllers with advanced LDPC solutions, which extended the lifetime of TLC SSDs. In addition, as the key designer, Dr. Chen and his team successfully developed the 1st generation LDPC based HDD read/write controller, which was widely used by WD, Seagate, and Hitachi.
Dr. Chen holds more than 10 US patents and published more than 10 journal papers and conference papers.
Dr. Chen holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Harbin Engineering University and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of Minnesota.
Lin Chen, Ph.D.Vice President of Product Engineering
Prior to joining InnoGrit, Dr. Chen was Senior Director at Marvell leading SoC and IP R&D design. With more than 20 years of experience in large-scale integrated circuit design, Dr. Chen led the engineering R&D team that successfully launched more than 20 chips from graphic processors, network switching, data storage, multimedia, microcontrollers and Internet of Things. The IP and product portfolio generated more than $1 Billion revenue annually. Dr. Chen was also a key member of design and development for many first-generation chips, which were widely adopted by customers including Xbox Kinect, Apple MacBook Pro, Cree LED, Whirlpool smart refrigerator, and Xiaomi smart plug. Perviously Dr. Chen worked at AMD and ATI.
Dr. Chen holds 16 US and Europe patents.
Dr. Chen holds a bachelor’s degree in Physics from Peking University, a master’s degree in Physics from High Energy Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, a Master’s Degree in Physics from University of New York at Stony Brook, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).
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