After MetaRAM, enter Netlist: HyperCloud and more memory for all types of servers
By Tarry Singh at 12 November, 2009, 2:03 am
What this means is that either its a tease to Cisco with ” Come and buy us and kill us so we can get rich while you have been able to keep the fire down” or it is for others such as HP, IBM, Sun or whoever to “buy them out for a quick cash-win” OR, here it comes - world domination and go on their own!
Well too bad that we couldn’t see MetaRAM live longer, maybe all those folks got absorbed into Netlist?
Anyways El reg reporting:
Enter Netlist with its HyperCloud memory modules - which, by the way, will plug into any server and which will do essentially the same trick as Cisco is pulling, but do so inside the memory module rather than on the motherboard.
Netlist got its start in 2000 doing custom printed circuit board design, and a “netlist,” according to Paul Duran, director of business development at the company, is akin to a bill of materials for all of the connectivity on a PCB. A few years back, when dense rack and blade servers started going volume, Netlist became a specialist in making very low profile memory on an OEM basis for blade server makers. (The company does not disclose who its customers are, but they’re probably the usual suspects.) The company also developed a memory packaging technology called Planar-X, which allows for two PCBs loaded with memory chips to be packaged together relatively inexpensively to share a single memory slot. This technique is cheaper and more reliable, according to Duran, than some of the dual-die packaging techniques memory module makers use to make dense memory cards out of low density and cheaper memory chips.
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