Netlist Announces Strategic Alliance with Samsung For Advanced Memory Technology
Samsung will buy 10 million Netlist shares and share patents under five-year agreements that settle pending legal disputes.
- On Wednesday, Netlist, Inc. and Samsung announced a five-year strategic alliance in Irvine, California, establishing a patent cross-license, memory product supply agreement, and technology cooperation while settling all pending legal actions.
- Netlist's portfolio of patented memory technologies, foundational to AI computing, prompted the partnership, which allows the company to monetize its intellectual property while securing a reliable supply partner in Samsung.
- Samsung will purchase ten million shares of Netlist common stock under the supply agreement, structured as a private transaction not registered under the Securities Act of 1933, with details available in Netlist's Form 8-K filing.
- At the Future of Memory and Storage 2026 conference in California on Tuesday, Samsung Electronics showcased next-generation architectures zHBM and zNAND-O, with Netlist CEO C.K. Hong stating the company is "excited to renew this partnership."
- Samsung claims an AI accelerator using zHBM can deliver up to eight times the performance of HBM5 while improving power efficiency threefold, with zNAND-O featuring more than 400 layers optimized for edge AI environments.
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Agreements for Cross License, Product Supply, and Technology Cooperation
(Santa Clara = Yonhap News) Correspondent Kwon Young-jeon = Attending the memory event 'FMS 2026' which opened on the 4th (local time) at the Santa Clara Convention Center in California...
At FMS 2026 held in Santa Clara, USA, Samsung Electronics unveiled 3D stacked zHBM technology, while SK Hynix unveiled NAND-based high-bandwidth flash HBF technology. By presenting different architectures to resolve data processing bottlenecks in the era of agentic AI, both companies are accelerating their competition to secure a technological advantage in the next-generation memory market.
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