Netlist Updates Status of Evidentiary Hearing in the Investigation of SK hynix at the United States International Trade Commission

IRVINE, Calif., March 14, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Netlist, Inc. (OTCQX: NLST) announced today that the Chief Administrative Law Judge (CALJ) of the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) temporarily suspended the evidentiary hearing of the investigation into SK hynix due to reasons unrelated to any dispute between the parties.  The hearing was slated to begin on March 11 and conclude on March 18, 2019.  However, the parties only completed a partial day of testimony before the hearing was suspended.  The ITC will schedule a date for continuation of the evidentiary hearing in the near future, and the rescheduled hearing will likely be completed within the next 60 days.

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Netlist provides high-performance SSDs and modular memory subsystems to enterprise customers in diverse industries. Flagship products NVvault® and EXPRESSvault™ enable customers to accelerate data in their servers and storage and reliably protect enterprise-level cache, metadata and log data in the event of a system failure or power outage. HybriDIMM™, Netlist's next-generation storage class memory product, addresses the growing need for real-time analytics in Big Data applications, in-memory databases, high-performance computing and advanced data storage solutions. Netlist also manufactures and provides a line of specialty and legacy memory products to storage customers, appliance customers, system builders and cloud and datacenter customers. Netlist holds a portfolio of patents, many seminal, in the areas of hybrid memory, storage class memory, rank multiplication and load reduction. To learn more, visit www.netlist.com.

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