By Chuck Hong, founder and CEO of Netlist.
Big Tech firms are stealing technology from small businesses. Congress must stop them.
As the founder and CEO of Netlist, a small company that develops advanced semiconductor technologies, I believed that patenting our inventions would protect our discoveries from bigger companies in our field and help us compete against them. For a time, that’s exactly what happened.
Starting in the mid-2000s, we were granted more than 100 patents on cutting-edge memory technologies, some of which are used today in artificial intelligence computing. It wasn’t long before Netlist’s memory modules became vital components in the world’s most advanced computing systems. We became a key supplier of high-performance memory systems to Dell, IBM, HP, and Google.