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Founded in 1988 by Dr. Eli Harari, an internationally recognized authority on non-volatile memory technology, SanDisk has grown to become the world’s largest supplier of flash memory data storage products.

 

Serving both consumers (via over 240,000 retail storefronts worldwide) and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), SanDisk designs, develops, manufactures and markets flash storage card products for a wide variety of electronic systems and digital devices. SanDisk also licenses its technology to a number of other industry-leading companies.

 

With flash memory’s capability for storing large amounts of data in a compact, removable format, SanDisk’s products have helped drive the exponential growth in sales of digital cameras, multi-function mobile phones, USB flash drives, and other digital consumer devices.

 

SanDisk holds more than 860 U.S. patents, more than 550 foreign patents and is the only company that has worldwide rights to both manufacture and sell every major flash card format including SD™, microSD™, miniSD™, CompactFlash®, MultiMediaCard™, xD-Picture Card™, Memory Stick PRO™ and related Memory Stick™ products. SanDisk also licenses its technology to other industry leaders in flash memory, generating revenues of $508 million in 2008.

SanDisk became a publicly traded company (NASDAQ:SNDK) in November 1995, and in 2004 revenues grew to over $3.35 billion. With about 3000 employees, worldwide, SanDisk is headquartered in Milpitas, California.