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class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/SanDisk" title="SanDisk – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="SanDisk" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/SanDisk" title="SanDisk – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="SanDisk" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/SanDisk" title="SanDisk – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="SanDisk" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a 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nickname"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>SunDisk Corporation (1988–1995)</li><li>SanDisk Corporation (1995–2016)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Company type</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Subsidiary" title="Subsidiary">Subsidiary</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Ticker_symbol" title="Ticker symbol">Traded as</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Nasdaq" title="Nasdaq">Nasdaq</a>: SNDK</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Industry</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Data_storage_device" class="mw-redirect" title="Data storage device">Storage devices</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data">June 1, 1988<span class="noprint">; 36 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1988-06-01</span>)</span><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founders</th><td class="infobox-data agent"><a href="/wiki/Eli_Harari" title="Eli Harari">Eli Harari</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Sanjay_Mehrotra" title="Sanjay Mehrotra">Sanjay Mehrotra</a><br />Jack Yuan</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data adr"><div class="ib-company-locality locality"><a href="/wiki/Milpitas" class="mw-redirect" title="Milpitas">Milpitas</a>, <a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a></div>, <div class="ib-company-country country-name"><a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Products</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Memory_card" title="Memory card">Memory cards</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USB_flash_drive" title="USB flash drive">USB flash drives</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dynamic_random-access_memory" title="Dynamic random-access memory">DRAM</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Digital_audio_player" class="mw-redirect" title="Digital audio player">Digital audio players</a> (<a href="/wiki/SanDisk_Sansa" class="mw-redirect" title="SanDisk Sansa">SanDisk Clip</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Solid-state_drive" title="Solid-state drive">Solid-state drives</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Number of employees</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 8,790</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Parent_company" class="mw-redirect" title="Parent company">Parent</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Western_Digital" title="Western Digital">Western Digital</a> (2016–present)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://shop.sandisk.com/">shop<wbr />.sandisk<wbr />.com</a></span> <span class="mw-valign-text-top noprint" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q260833#P856" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20" /></a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>SanDisk LLC</b> is an American multinational computer technology company based in <a href="/wiki/Milpitas,_California" title="Milpitas, California">Milpitas, California</a>. It is known for its <a href="/wiki/Flash_memory" title="Flash memory">flash memory</a> products, including <a href="/wiki/Memory_card" title="Memory card">memory cards</a> and readers, <a href="/wiki/USB_flash_drive" title="USB flash drive">USB flash drives</a>, <a href="/wiki/Solid-state_drive" title="Solid-state drive">solid-state drives</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Digital_audio_player" class="mw-redirect" title="Digital audio player">digital audio players</a>. The company was founded in 1988 as <b>SunDisk Corporation</b> and renamed in 1995 as <b>SanDisk Corporation</b>;<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> it assumed its current name in 2016 when it was acquired by <a href="/wiki/Western_Digital" title="Western Digital">Western Digital</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As of March 2019,<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=SanDisk&action=edit">[update]</a></sup> Western Digital was the fourth-largest manufacturer of flash memory having declined from third-largest in 2014.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SanDisk&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>SanDisk (originally Sundisk) was founded in 1988 by <a href="/wiki/Eli_Harari" title="Eli Harari">Eli Harari</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sanjay_Mehrotra" title="Sanjay Mehrotra">Sanjay Mehrotra</a>, and Jack Yuan.<sup id="cite_ref-sjmerc08062008_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sjmerc08062008-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1995, just before its <a href="/wiki/Initial_public_offering" title="Initial public offering">initial public offering</a>, SunDisk changed its name to SanDisk, to avoid confusion with <a href="/wiki/Sun_Microsystems" title="Sun Microsystems">Sun Microsystems</a>, a prominent computer manufacturer at the time.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>SanDisk co-founder Eli Harari developed the Floating Gate <a href="/wiki/EEPROM" title="EEPROM">EEPROM</a> which proved the practicality, reliability and endurance of semiconductor-based data storage.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1991, SanDisk produced the first flash-based <a href="/wiki/Solid-state_drive" title="Solid-state drive">solid-state drive</a> (SSD) in a 2.5-inch <a href="/wiki/Hard_disk_drive" title="Hard disk drive">hard disk drive</a> form factor for <a href="/wiki/IBM" title="IBM">IBM</a> with a 20 MB capacity priced at about $1,000.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1992, SanDisk introduced FlashDisk, a series of memory cards made for the <a href="/wiki/PCMCIA" title="PCMCIA">PCMCIA</a> or PC card form factor, so they could be inserted into the expansion slots of many laptops and handheld PCs of the time. Unlike other similar products at the time, FlashDisks did not require a battery to store their contents. SanDisk discontinued their production in 2002, and the highest capacity model had 8 gigabytes of capacity.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On May 10, 2000, the <a href="/wiki/Toshiba" title="Toshiba">Toshiba</a> Corporation of Japan and the SanDisk Corporation said that they would jointly form a new semiconductor company to produce advanced flash memory, primarily for <a href="/wiki/Digital_camera" title="Digital camera">digital cameras</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2005 SanDisk entered the <a href="/wiki/Digital_audio_player" class="mw-redirect" title="Digital audio player">digital audio player</a> market with the release of its first flash-based MP3 player, the <a href="/wiki/SanDisk_Sansa" class="mw-redirect" title="SanDisk Sansa">SanDisk Sansa</a> e100.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As soon as 2006, they became the second largest maker of digital audio players in the United States behind <a href="/wiki/Apple,_Inc." class="mw-redirect" title="Apple, Inc.">Apple</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Acquisitions_and_growth">Acquisitions and growth</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SanDisk&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Acquisitions and growth"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>In October 2005, SanDisk acquired Matrix Semiconductor.<sup id="cite_ref-cnet-matrix_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cnet-matrix-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In July 2006, SanDisk acquired <a href="/wiki/M-Systems" title="M-Systems">M-Systems</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In May 2011, SanDisk acquired Pliant Technology, a manufacturer of solid state drives, for US$327 million.<sup id="cite_ref-crn-pilant_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-crn-pilant-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In February 2012, SanDisk acquired FlashSoft.<sup id="cite_ref-crn-schooner_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-crn-schooner-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In June 2012, SanDisk acquired <a href="/wiki/Schooner_Information_Technology" title="Schooner Information Technology">Schooner Information Technology</a>, developer of the flash-optimized database software SchoonerSQL and caching software Membrain.<sup id="cite_ref-crn-schooner_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-crn-schooner-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In July 2013, SanDisk acquired SMART Storage Systems, a producer of SSDs for the enterprise market, for US$307 million.<sup id="cite_ref-zdnet-smart_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-zdnet-smart-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In June 2014, SanDisk acquired <a href="/wiki/Fusion-io" title="Fusion-io">Fusion-io</a>, a producer of flash memory for enterprise <a href="/wiki/Data_center" title="Data center">data centers</a>, for $1.1 billion.<sup id="cite_ref-recode-fusionio_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-recode-fusionio-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Awards_and_sale">Awards and sale</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SanDisk&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Awards and sale"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2012, the <a href="/wiki/Enough_Project" title="Enough Project">Enough Project</a> ranked SanDisk the third highest of 24 consumer electronics companies on "progress on <a href="/wiki/Conflict_minerals" class="mw-redirect" title="Conflict minerals">conflict minerals</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-EnoughProject2012_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EnoughProject2012-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2014, SanDisk co-founder Harari won the <a href="/wiki/National_Medal_of_Technology_and_Innovation" title="National Medal of Technology and Innovation">National Medal of Technology and Innovation</a> from President <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> for his innovations and contributions to flash memory storage.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On January 8, 2015, NexGen Storage, which had been acquired by Fusion-io, was spun out to become an independent company once again.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In January 2016, Pivot3 (based in <a href="/wiki/Austin,_Texas" title="Austin, Texas">Austin, Texas</a>) acquired NexGen Storage.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> SanDisk was acquired by hard disk drive manufacturer <a href="/wiki/Western_Digital" title="Western Digital">Western Digital</a> on May 12, 2016, for US$19 billion.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-verge-wdsandisk_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-verge-wdsandisk-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2019 <a href="/wiki/Sanjay_Mehrotra" title="Sanjay Mehrotra">Sanjay Mehrotra</a> received a lifetime achievement award at a trade show.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SanDisk&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eye-Fi" title="Eye-Fi">Eye-Fi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/FlashCP" title="FlashCP">FlashCP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SanDisk_portable_media_players" title="SanDisk portable media players">SanDisk portable media players</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SanDisk_Professional" title="SanDisk Professional">SanDisk Professional</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USB_flash_drive_security" title="USB flash drive security">USB flash drive security</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/StartKey" title="StartKey">StartKey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/U3_(software)" title="U3 (software)">U3</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/ULLtraDIMM" title="ULLtraDIMM">ULLtraDIMM</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SanDisk&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span 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title="Wear leveling">Wear leveling</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Write_amplification" title="Write amplification">Write amplification</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Flash manufacturers</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Micron_Technology" title="Micron Technology">Micron</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samsung_Electronics" title="Samsung Electronics">Samsung</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SK_Hynix" title="SK Hynix">SK Hynix</a> <ul><li>Bought <a href="/wiki/Intel" title="Intel">Intel</a>'s NAND flash SSD business and renamed it Solidigm</li></ul></li> <li>Flash Forward (joint venture between <a href="/wiki/Western_Digital" title="Western Digital">Western Digital</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kioxia" title="Kioxia">Kioxia</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yangtze_Memory_Technologies" title="Yangtze Memory Technologies">YMTC</a></li></ul> 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title="OCZ">OCZ</a> (bankrupt, assets sold to Toshiba, which later spun off its SSD and flash business to Kioxia)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indilinx" title="Indilinx">Indilinx</a> (bought by OCZ)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Micron_Technology" title="Micron Technology">Micron</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samsung_Electronics" title="Samsung Electronics">Samsung</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seagate_Technology" title="Seagate Technology">Seagate</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/SandForce" title="SandForce">SandForce</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SK_Hynix" title="SK Hynix">SK Hynix</a> <ul><li>Bought <a href="/wiki/Intel" title="Intel">Intel</a>'s NAND flash SSD business including controllers and renamed it Solidigm</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=FADU&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="FADU (page does not exist)">FADU</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Independent</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group 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