NetList Inc (NLST)

[Mac2014]

Samsung can't get the seminal products anywhere else. Nowhere. If they could they would have just gone back and forth on the price with NetList like you can do when you have two or more suppliers for the same product.
Instead they stole it. Same with Google, SKHynix, Macron and all the others. If there were another supplier out there nobody would have been using stolen IP. And when HybriDIMM hits the market they'll have to license that too because there is nothing comparable. Their server components won't be competitive without it.

Microprocessors are not easy to design, especially if you have to reinvent the wheel, and not build on what is already out there, in order to avoid patent infringement. It's FAR easier to just pay a license fee and not have to go through the years of development and testing.