Netlist (company)

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Netlist Inc.
TypePublic (OTCQB:NLST)[1]
IndustryTech Hardware & Semiconductors[2]
Founded2000; 22 years ago (2000)
HeadquartersIrvine, California, United States of America
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Hong Chun-ki (Founder, CEO and Director)[3] Gail Sasaki (CFO and EVP)[3]
RevenueIncrease US$ 47.2 million (2020)[4]
Decrease US$ 12.4 million (2020)[4]
Total assetsIncrease US$ 25.3 million (2020)[4]
Total equityDecrease US$ 0.2 million (2020)[4]
Number of employees
Increase 82 (2020)
Websitewww.netlist.com

Netlist Inc. is a multinational company headquartered in Irvine, California that designs, manufactures and sells high-performance SSDs and modular memory subsystems to enterprise customers in diverse industries. It also manufactures a line of specialty and legacy memory products to storage customers, appliance customers, system builders and cloud and datacenter customers. Netlist holds a portfolio of patents in the areas of server memory, hybrid memory, storage class memory, rank multiplication and load reduction. Netlist has more than 80 employees and an annual revenue of US $47.2 million as of 2020[4] The stock was added to NASDAQ in late 2006.[5] In the initial public offering of its common stock in 2006, Netlist sold 6,250,000 shares at $7.00 each.[6] On September 26, 2018, Netlist announced they were moving from NASDAQ and currently trades on the OTCQB.

As of 2019, Netlist was reportedly in favorable claim for patents infringed upon by Google[7] and South Korean Company, SK Hynix.[8] The company, founded by former LG Corporation employee Hong Chun-ki[9] (also named Chun Ki Hong[10] and Chun K. Hong) in 2000, has been under a license contract with Samsung Electronics since 2015.[11] On June 15, 2020 the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit[12] upheld the validity of Netlist's U.S. Patent No. 7,619,912[13] which it had asserted against Google with respect to DDR3 and DDR4 memory usage.

Notable partnerships and licenses[]

  • April 5, 2021: Netlist and SK hynix Enter into Strategic Agreements for Patents, Technology and Product Supply[14]
  • October 13, 2020: Digi-Key Electronics and Netlist Announce U.S. Marketplace Distribution Partnership[15]
  • November 19, 2015: Netlist Announces Strategic Partnership With Samsung For New Storage Class Memory[16]

Notable technology and products[]

Enterprise SSD[17]

  • Enterprise and Data Center NVMe SSD in multiple form factors and capacities built using PCI Express™ (PCIe™) Gen4 & Gen3 protocols

Embedded flash[18]

  • Offering high-performance, high-capacity flash solutions optimized for the embedded and server market in a wide range of form factors and dimensions

Memory Module DDR4 DIMMs[19]

  • A wide lineup of commercial and industrial grade DDR4 DIMMs. These modules operate reliably in harsh, long-life computing environments and densely configured computing applications with limited airflow

Intellectual property[]

Netlist holds a portfolio of patents in the areas of server memory, hybrid memory, storage class memory, rank multiplication and load reduction. The company has a portfolio of more than 130 issued and pending U.S. and foreign patents[20]

  • November 12, 2019: USPTO Issues New RDIMM Patent to Netlist[21]
  • February 19, 2019: United States Patent Trial and Appeal Board Upholds Validity of Netlist's '912 Patent[22]
  • January 31, 2017: Netlist Awarded New Patent For High-Speed RDIMM And LRDIMM Memory Modules[23]

References[]

  1. ^ "Netlist Reports Second Quarter 2021 Results". Yahoo Finance. Yahoo Finance. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
  2. ^ "Netlist Inc". Bloomberg.
  3. ^ a b "Leadership". Netlist.
  4. ^ a b c d e "Netlist, Inc. Financials". Yahoo Finance.
  5. ^ Chris Casacchia (May 11, 2011). "Netlist Reports Mixed Q1 Results".
  6. ^ "NASDAQ Netlist Inc (NLST) IPO". 2006-11-30.
  7. ^ "Google Loses Appeal in Google,LLC vs Netlist,Inc".
  8. ^ Michael Herh (2018-09-11). "SK Hynix in an Unfavorable Position in Patent Infringement Suit with Netlist". Business Korea. Retrieved 2019-03-21.
  9. ^ Cho Jin-young (2016-10-06). "U.S. ITC Investigates SK Hynix for Patent Infringement". Business Korea. Retrieved 2017-08-17.
  10. ^ LexisNexis Corporate Affiliations: U.S. Public Companies. 2009. p. 1612. Retrieved 2017-08-21 – via Google Books.
  11. ^ "Netlist likely to sue SK hynix". The Korea Herald. 2017-05-30. Retrieved 2017-08-21.
  12. ^ "GOOGLE LLC v. NETLIST, INC. [RULE 36 JUDGMENT] | US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit". US Courts. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
  13. ^ [1], "Memory module decoder", issued 2007-09-27 
  14. ^ "SK Hynix, Netlist settle chip patent dispute". EconoTimes. Retrieved November 1, 2021.
  15. ^ "Digi-Key and Netlist announce US marketplace distribution partnership". Evertiq. Retrieved November 1, 2021.
  16. ^ "Netlist annouces [sic] strategic partnership with Samsung for new storage class memory". Micronews. Retrieved November 1, 2021.
  17. ^ "Products". Netlist Inc. Retrieved November 4, 2021.
  18. ^ "Products". Netlist Inc. Retrieved November 4, 2021.
  19. ^ "Products". Netlist Inc. Retrieved November 4, 2021.
  20. ^ "SEC Filings". Netlist Inc. Retrieved November 4, 2021.
  21. ^ "USPTO Issues New RDIMM Patent To Netlist". Netlist Inc. Retrieved November 4, 2021.
  22. ^ "United States Patent Trial and Appeal Board Upholds Validity of Netlist's '912 Patent". Netlist Inc. Retrieved November 4, 2021.
  23. ^ "Netlist Awarded New Patent for High-Speed RDIMM and LRDIMM Memory Modules". Netlist Inc. Retrieved November 4, 2021.

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