Netlist Demonstrates Superiority Of Hypercloud Memory Over LRDIMM At Supercomputing 2012

IRVINE, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 11/12/12 -- Netlist, Inc. (NASDAQ: NLST), a leading provider of high performance memory solutions for the cloud computing market, will demonstrate a comprehensive performance benchmark of its flagship memory product, HyperCloud (HCDIMM), at the SuperComputing Conference.

The demo will consist of a comparison of two Intel Romley-based servers both running SANDRA 2012 by SiSoftware. SANDRA benchmark measures sustained memory bandwidth, not burst or peak, and is therefore directly applicable to many HPC software programs where data throughput is paramount. One server will be equipped with 768GB of the industry standard 1333MHz 32GB LRDIMMs and the second server with the same amount of HyperCloud 32GB HCDIMMs.

The benchmark results show a 39% greater throughput for the server with HyperCloud memory compared to the server equipped with LRDIMMs. Since both systems ran SANDRA fully loaded with three DIMMs per memory channel at the same frequency of 1333MHz, the 39% advantage can clearly be attributed to the lower latency and higher performance of the HyperCloud memory system.

HyperCloud memory utilizes a distributed buffer architecture to reduce latency and incorporates Netlist's patented rank multiplication and load reduction technologies. Rank multiplication enables more DRAM capacity and load reduction reduces the loading to the memory interface allowing HCDIMMs to run at faster speeds at maximum capacity.

"As companies today increasingly process and capitalize on big data, there's an increasing need for more memory in servers. However, memory performance in these servers is not keeping pace with processor technology, creating a high density memory cliff," said C.K. Hong, CEO of Netlist. "HyperCloud breaks this bottleneck and allows servers to operate at their peak potential. By doing so, HyperCloud increases performances of applications in such key areas as securities trading, analytics, virtualization, and simulation."

HyperCloud is shipping in volume with the world's top three selling servers from IBM and HP, and is implemented across a number of high-performance computing applications in industries such as electronic design automation, financial services, oil & gas, aerospace and automotive.

Additional information on Netlist's HyperCloud technology can be found at www.netlist.com/hypercloud.

About Netlist:

Netlist, Inc. designs and manufactures high-performance, logic-based memory subsystems for server and storage applications for cloud computing. Netlist's flagship products include HyperCloud?, a patented memory technology that breaks traditional memory barriers, NVvault? family of products that enables data retention during power interruption, EXPRESSvault?, a PCI Express backup/recovery solution for cache data protection and a broad portfolio of industrial Flash and specialty memory subsystems including VLP (very low profile) DIMMs and Planar-X RDIMMs.

Netlist develops technology solutions for customer applications in which high-speed, high-capacity, small form factor and heat dissipation are key requirements for system memory. These customers include OEMs that design and build tower, rack-mounted, and blade servers, high-performance computing clusters, engineering workstations and telecommunications equipment. Founded in 2000, Netlist is headquartered in Irvine, CA with manufacturing facilities in Suzhou, People's Republic of China and an engineering design center in Silicon Valley, CA. Learn more at www.netlist.com.

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