Netlist has announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office issued to Netlist Patent No. 7,811,097 entitled, "Circuit with Flexible Portion," for its Planar-X innovation. Through the use of innovative circuit design, Planar-X provides additional board space for a large number of DRAM components. This enables Netlist customers, using Planar-X, to achieve higher capacity RDIMM modules at a lower cost.

Planar-X can also be used to develop high performance modules when combined with Netlist's HyperCloud technology. Planar-X modules are JEDEC compatible and plug into standard server memory slots. JEDEC is an independent semiconductor engineering trade organization and standardization body.