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Netlist, Incorporated, is an electronics device company.

History

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Netlist was founded in late 2000 by Chun K. Hong, Jayesh Bhakta, and Christopher Lopes.[1] The name refers to a "netlist" that specifies a set of connections for an electrical circuit, since its first business was providing contract services to design printed circuit boards.[2]

After filing for an initial public offering first in August 2006, the company shares were listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange in November 2006, with the symbol NLST.[1] Despite a series of operating losses since at least 2001, the IPO raised over $40 million. Most of the sales were to large customers, including Dell, IBM, and Lenovo.[1] http://www.netlist.com/products/hypercloud/whitepapers/hcdimm_vs_lrdimm_whitepaper_march_2012.pdf

By mid-2007, falling memory prices caused the company to warn about reduced earnings.[3] After Google had chosen a different vendor for a proposed project from 2006, Netlist claimed Google violated its patent on a memory module decoder.[4] Google filed a preemptive suit over the patent in 2008, claiming it was invalid.[5][6] A lawsuit settlement licensed patents from a short-lived startup called MetaRAM, which shut down in 2009.[7][8] Reduced sales following the financial crisis of 2007–2008 caused the share price to drift down on very thin trading through 2009.[9]

Netlist announced a product line called HyperCloud memory at the International Supercomputing Conference in November 2009.[2] The modules allowed larger amounts of memory to be added to data center computers, compared to other techniques.[10] The dense DDR3 SDRAM modules plugged into standard servers' memory slots, compared to extended memory technology used in the Cisco Unified Computing System models of the time, for example.[2] In March 2010, a secondary public offering raised another $14 million.[11] In May 2010, a trade secret lawsuit against Texas Instruments was settled.[12]

At the ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference 2011 trade show, 16 GB modules at 1333 MT/s were demonstrated on servers from a company called Cirrascale.[13] Modules of 32 GB each were announced at the end of 2011.[14]

http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2016/01/12/out-from-under-its-legal-troubles-diablo-gets-19-million/

HyperVault technology....

By August 2013, a lawsuit was filed against Diablo Technologies, after an anonymous letter was disclosed alleging trade secret misappropriation.[15][16][17] A counter-suit was filed by Smart Modular Technologies (which licensed technology from Diablo ) against Netlist in 2014, with argument in November 2015. In 2016, the patent trial and appeal board dismissed the case in a mixed decision.[18][19] Netlist was awarded $2 for improper use of a logo, while competing products from Diablo and SanDisk (which had acquired Smart) were allowed to ship.[20]

After years of costly litigation and declining revenues, Samsung signed a joint development agreement (and investment) with Netlist in late 2015.[21] The companies hoped to compete with the 3D XPoint technology announced by Intel and Micron Technology.[22] A product called HybriDIMM was announced in August 2016. The technology was non-volatile memory, combining flash memory with random-access memory, using predictive algorithms to improve access times.[23] In September 2016, as its shares hovered around the lower $1 limit, a secondary public offering was announced to raise $15 million.[24]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Prospectus". US Securities and Exchange Commission. November 29, 2006. Retrieved December 19, 2016.
  2. ^ a b c Timothy Prickett Morgan (November 11, 2009). "Netlist goes virtual and dense with server memory". The Register. Retrieved December 19, 2016.
  3. ^ Chris Casacchia (July 2, 2007). "Falling Memory Chip Prices Prompt Netlist Warning". Orange County Business Journal. Retrieved December 19, 2016.
  4. ^ Jayesh R. Bhakta, Jeffrey C. Solomon (March 5, 2004). "Memory module decoder". US Patent 7289386 B2. Retrieved December 19, 2016.
  5. ^ "Google Launches Pre-Emptive Lawsuit Against Memory Maker". Information Week. September 15, 2008.
  6. ^ "Google Inc. v. Netlist, Inc". August 29, 2008.
  7. ^ Tomio Geron (July 8, 2009). "Turning Out The Lights: Semiconductor Company MetaRAM". Venture Capital Dispatch.
  8. ^ "LRDIMMs similarities with MetaRAM". DDR3memory blog. May 30, 2012. Retrieved December 21, 2016.
  9. ^ Eric Savitz (November 20, 2009). "The Curious Case Of Netlist Inc. (Updated)". Tech Trader Daily. Retrieved December 21, 2016.
  10. ^ David Berlind (October 11, 2010). "Interop In Advance: HyperCloud Claims To Overcome Server's Natural RAM Limits". Information Week. Retrieved December 19, 2016.
  11. ^ Timothy Prickett Morgan (March 23, 2010). "Netlist's HyperCloud memory gets Wall Street's blessing: Raises $14.1m in stock sale". The Register. Retrieved December 23, 2016.
  12. ^ Eric Savitz (May 17, 2010). "Netlist Settles Trade Secrets Suit Against Texas Instruments". Tech Trader Daily. Retrieved December 21, 2016.
  13. ^ "HyperCloud Achieves Server Memory Speed Breakthrough at SC11". Press release. Cirrascale Corporation. November 15, 2011. Archived from the original on January 21, 2012. Retrieved December 19, 2016.
  14. ^ Timothy Prickett Morgan (November 30, 2011). "Netlist puffs HyperCloud DDR3 memory to 32GB". The Register.
  15. ^ Chris Mellor (December 16, 2013). "Netlist sues Diablo and SMART Storage after whistleblower reveals alleged IP theft: Anon scribe says company slurped proprietary info". The Register. Retrieved December 22, 2016.
  16. ^ "Netlist, Inc.'s Response to November 26, 2013 Order to Show Cause why COunts 8-13 Against Defendant Diablo Technologies Should Not be Transferred to the Northern District of California". US Securities and Exchange Commission. December 13, 2013. Retrieved December 22, 2016.
  17. ^ "Netlist (NLST) Files Complaint in U.S. Against Smart Modular Tech". Street Insider. August 26, 2013.
  18. ^ Linda M. Gaudette, Bryan F. Moore and Matthew R. Clements (March 9, 2016). "Smart Modular Technologies Inc., Petitioner, v. Netlist, Inc. Patent Owner" (PDF). Case IPR2014-01374, Patent Patent 8,359,501 B1. Retrieved December 19, 2016.
  19. ^ "Smart Modular Tech v. Netlist: Final Written Decision with Dissent Differing with Majority's Technical Analysis IPR2014-01374". National Law Review. May 10, 2016.
  20. ^ Chris Mellor (April 21, 2015). "Netlist gets derisory $2 award following Diablo IP theft trial kerfuffle: Diablo and SanDisk have shipment bans lifted and Netlist can't lift a finger". The Register. Retrieved December 19, 2016.
  21. ^ Chris Mellor (November 19, 2015). "Samsung tosses lifeline to Netlist NVDIMMs: Turns from Diablo litigation hell to Samsung heaven". The Register. Retrieved December 19, 2016.
  22. ^ Paul Alcorn (November 20, 2015). "Samsung Partners With Netlist, Fires Its First NVDIMM Shot At 3D XPoint". Tom's IT Pro.
  23. ^ Chris Mellor (August 8, 2016). "Say hello to Samsung and Netlist's flash-DRAM grenade: HybriDIMM: Shoving NAND on a DIMM with a DRAM cache to speed access". The Register. Retrieved December 19, 2016.
  24. ^ Chris Casacchia (September 7, 2016). "Netlist in $15M Offering". Orange County Business Journal. Retrieved December 19, 2016.
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