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Timeline of Innovation

2008

  • Announced an increase in the capacity of its embedded iNAND product to 16 Gigabytes for mobile handset storage.
  • Unveiled the Sansa® Fuze™, a feature-rich MP3 player.
  • Introduced a line of flash memory-based solid state drives (SSDs) for an emerging new category of laptops – Ultra Low-Cost PCs (ULCPC).
  • Launched the first premium Mobile Ultra memory cards for mobile phones to add capacity and provide fast transfer speeds for music, maps, videos, photos, and games.

2007

  • Inaugurated, with Toshiba, Fab 4 in Yokkaichi, Japan – expected to be world’s largest NAND fab
  • Introduced SSD 5000 line of solid state drives to replace hard disks in notebook computers
  • Launched Sansa® Connect™ Wi-Fi enabled MP3 player, Sansa® Shaker™, Sansa Clip and Sansa View video MP3 player
  • TakeTV™, first digital ‘flash DVD player’
  • First to introduce 8GB microSDHC, world’s smallest flash card for mobile phones
  • Introduced Memory Stick Micro (M2) card format for Sony Ericsson phones
  • At 45MB/s Read/Write, SanDisk Extreme Ducati Edition CompactFlash® is the fastest SanDisk card ever
  • SanDisk opens its first production plant in Shanghai, China