The company logo is displayed at the Samsung news conference at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, on Jan 7, 2013.A federal jury in Marshall, Texas, on Friday awarded computer memory company Netlist US$118 million in damages from Samsung Electronics in a patent lawsuit over technology for improving data processing in high-performance memory products.
Netlist also won US$445 million from chipmaker Micron in May in a separate lawsuit over some of the same patents. Netlist sued Samsung in 2022, alleging that the Korean tech giant's memory modules used in cloud computing servers and other data-intensive technology infringed its patents. Netlist said its innovations increase the power efficiency of memory modules and enable users to "derive useful information from vast amounts of data in a shorter period."