Netlist expands IP of hybrid memory systems
The United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued Notices of Allowance for two of Netlist's pending patent applications covering core aspects of hybrid memory systems that combine DRAM and Flash memory technologies.
Hybrid memory systems combine the speed, endurance, and reliability of DRAM with the persistence, high density and low cost of Flash. The claims contained in these new patents cover innovations critical to facilitating the movement of data between the host system and the DRAM memory and between the DRAM and Flash memory subsystems.
"The rapidly expanding market for the fusion of memory and storage is an important area for Netlist and one where we continue to actively grow our patent portfolio," says Netlist President and CEO, C.K. Hong.
"Enterprise Flash storage solutions, of which Hybrid memory modules and memory channel interface SSDs are a part of, are projected to be an $8 billion market by 2017. Netlist is proud to be the market leader in this transformation and we see significant opportunities for current and future products as well as patent monetisation."
Netlist has steadily invested in and grown its IP portfolio, which now includes forty one issued patents and more than twenty nine US and foreign pending patent applications in the areas of high performance and high density memory subsystems and hybrid memory technologies.
