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Sandisk Corporation (formerly branded SanDisk) is an American multinational computer semiconductor company based in Milpitas, California, that designs and manufactures flash memory products, including memory cards, USB flash drives, and solid-state drives (SSDs). It was founded in 1988 as SunDisk by Eli Harari, Sanjay Mehrotra, and Jack Yuan. The name is a portmanteau of the founder’s name Sanjay and disk.
The company developed early flash storage technologies, including the first flash-based solid-state drive introduced in 1991. SunDisk changed its name to SanDisk in 1995 and subsequently held an initial public offering. In 2016, SanDisk was acquired by Western Digital. In 2025, Western Digital spun off its flash storage business as an independent public company under the Sandisk name.
The company was originally founded in 1988 as SunDisk by Eli Harari, Sanjay Mehrotra, and Jack Yuan.
Harari developed the Floating Gate EEPROM which proved the practicality, reliability and endurance of semiconductor-based data storage. The three co-founders had the goal of developing and selling solid state storage products that could hold data for years without requiring external power.
In 1991, SanDisk produced the first flash-based solid-state drive (SSD) in a 2.5-inch hard disk drive form factor for IBM with a 20 MB capacity priced at about $1,000.
In 1992, SanDisk introduced FlashDisk, a series of memory cards made for the PCMCIA or PC Card form factor, so they could be inserted into the expansion slots of many laptops and handheld PCs of the time.[citation needed] 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.
On November 8, 1995, SunDisk changed its name to SanDisk to avoid confusion with Sun Microsystems, and went public under the new name via an initial public offering, marking the company's first tenure on the Nasdaq under the stock ticker SNDK. 16 million shares were sold at a price of $10.00 per share.[citation needed]
On May 10, 2000, the Toshiba Corporation of Japan and the SanDisk Corporation said that they would jointly form a new semiconductor company to produce advanced flash memory, primarily for digital cameras.
Sandisk
Sandisk Corporation (formerly branded SanDisk) is an American multinational computer semiconductor company based in Milpitas, California, that designs and manufactures flash memory products, including memory cards, USB flash drives, and solid-state drives (SSDs). It was founded in 1988 as SunDisk by Eli Harari, Sanjay Mehrotra, and Jack Yuan. The name is a portmanteau of the founder’s name Sanjay and disk.
The company developed early flash storage technologies, including the first flash-based solid-state drive introduced in 1991. SunDisk changed its name to SanDisk in 1995 and subsequently held an initial public offering. In 2016, SanDisk was acquired by Western Digital. In 2025, Western Digital spun off its flash storage business as an independent public company under the Sandisk name.
The company was originally founded in 1988 as SunDisk by Eli Harari, Sanjay Mehrotra, and Jack Yuan.
Harari developed the Floating Gate EEPROM which proved the practicality, reliability and endurance of semiconductor-based data storage. The three co-founders had the goal of developing and selling solid state storage products that could hold data for years without requiring external power.
In 1991, SanDisk produced the first flash-based solid-state drive (SSD) in a 2.5-inch hard disk drive form factor for IBM with a 20 MB capacity priced at about $1,000.
In 1992, SanDisk introduced FlashDisk, a series of memory cards made for the PCMCIA or PC Card form factor, so they could be inserted into the expansion slots of many laptops and handheld PCs of the time.[citation needed] 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.
On November 8, 1995, SunDisk changed its name to SanDisk to avoid confusion with Sun Microsystems, and went public under the new name via an initial public offering, marking the company's first tenure on the Nasdaq under the stock ticker SNDK. 16 million shares were sold at a price of $10.00 per share.[citation needed]
On May 10, 2000, the Toshiba Corporation of Japan and the SanDisk Corporation said that they would jointly form a new semiconductor company to produce advanced flash memory, primarily for digital cameras.
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