New ITC Complaint Added to Long-Running, Complicated Netlist Campaign

Netlist, Inc. has filed a complaint before the International Trade Commission (ITC), naming as proposed respondents Alphabet (Google), Samsung, and Super Micro Computer (337-TA-3854). Six patents are asserted, with infringement allegations focused on certain Samsung DDR5 generation Dual In-line Memory Modules (DIMMs) and certain Samsung HBM2/2E, HBM3/3E, and HBM4/4E high bandwidth memory (“HBM”) packages; "Google’s fifth, sixth and seventh generation Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) utilizing Samsung HBMs”, as well as “Google’s Google Cloud Platform (GCP) virtual machines and cloud storage services utilizing Samsung DIMMs and HBMs”; and certain Super Micro “servers and computing systems utilizing Samsung’s HBMs” and DIMMs.