Netlist, Inc. is a publicly traded technology company founded in 2000 and headquartered in Irvine, California. The company's stock trades on the OTCQB market under the ticker symbol NLST. For its fiscal year ending in late 2025, Netlist reported revenues of $188.6 million and had approximately 69 employees.
Netlist is an operating company that designs, manufactures, and sells high-performance memory subsystems for enterprise and cloud computing markets. Its product lines include enterprise solid-state drives (SSDs), embedded flash products, and specialty memory modules like NVDIMMs and other DIMMs. The company focuses on hybrid memory, which combines DRAM and NAND flash to create solutions for servers and data centers. It also holds a portfolio of patents related to memory and storage technologies.
Based on the provided case data, Netlist has been a defendant in two tracked patent cases and has not appeared as a plaintiff. This posture suggests the profile of an operating company defending its technology. The two cases listed are a Patent Trial and Appeal Board proceeding initiated by Samsung Electronics and a district court case brought by Micron Technology in the District of Idaho.
The tracked cases involve disputes with major global semiconductor and memory manufacturers. The case Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. et al. v. Netlist, Inc. is a post-grant proceeding at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, while Micron Technology, Inc. v. Netlist, Inc. is a federal lawsuit. These opponents are significant players in the markets where Netlist operates.