IT home On June 22, Samsung was involved in a patent dispute in the United States over its high-end storage products. Netlist has filed a lawsuit with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) and the U.S. Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Texas (EDTX), accusing the South Korean company of alleged patent infringement of its high-bandwidth memory (HBM) and DDR5 products.

Driven by soaring demand for artificial intelligence infrastructure, Samsung's storage business has performed well in profits, but this new lawsuit may bring operational pressure to the company. Netlist alleges that Samsung's high-bandwidth memory products, DDR5 RDIMM and MRDIMM infringe U.S. Patents Nos. 12646537 and 12650937.

Netlist is a California-based storage technology company that holds several patents for its own innovations.

Patent No. 537 protects vertically stacked memory chips and through-silicon via (TSV) technology; Patent No. 937 targets the register clock driver (RCD), a core component of a memory module. It is worth mentioning that the defendants in this lawsuit also include Google, Nvidia, Ultramicro Computer and Broadcom. Netlist stated that all of the above companies used storage technology that Samsung allegedly infringed.

The products involved include Google's Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) artificial intelligence systems, NVIDIA's Blackwell and Rubin series of graphics processors, and Ultracomputer's server products. Netlist has applied to the U.S. International Trade Commission for an import exclusion order and a cessation of infringement injunction against Samsung and the remaining defendants. If the committee approves the application, the infringing products involved will be restricted from being imported and sold within the United States.

CEO of Netlist C.K. Hong said: "Netlist continues to drive breakthrough innovations in artificial intelligence storage. This rights protection lawsuit is an important measure for us to increase our efforts to protect the new generation of server memory modules and high-bandwidth memory technology and eliminate unauthorized commercial activities."

Samsung signed a patent licensing agreement with Netlist in 2015, but defaulted in 2020. The South Korean company has previously lost two patent infringement lawsuits in the U.S. Federal Court in Texas. The jury has ruled that Samsung will pay Netlist US$303 million (IT Home note: current exchange rate is approximately 2.057 billion yuan) and US$118 million (current exchange rate is approximately 801 million yuan) in damages.

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