Corporate Profile
SanDisk: Creating New Markets; Enriching
Lives
SanDisk, a Fortune 500 and S&P 500 company, is the world's
largest dedicated provider of flash memory storage solutions. Our
products enable you to capture, share, preserve and enjoy an
exciting world of digital content. Whether it's the removable
memory card in your camera, the smartphone in your pocket, or
datacenters that power the cloud, SanDisk is enriching people's
lives through digital storage anytime, anywhere.
This is a commitment we have upheld for more than 20 years as
we've grown from a three-person Silicon Valley startup to a global
leader with approximately 4,000 employees. Today, the SanDisk brand
is recognized around the world and our flash memory technology has
been deployed pervasively: top electronics companies embed our
memory solutions into their devices, and approximately 250,000
retail outlets offer SanDisk products to consumers globally.
SanDisk creates transformational memory products through
world-class manufacturing facilities that produce hundreds of
millions of flash chips annually. We serve three high-growth mega
markets, all of which increasingly require flash memory to deliver
compelling benefits to consumers and businesses.
Mobile
Mobility is everywhere, and flash memory technology is fueling
this revolution. Without flash storage, your smartphone or tablet
would not exist. This is why virtually every major handset
manufacturer, tablet developer and chipset vendor in the world
relies on SanDisk's embedded and removable memory to deliver the
full potential of mobile devices.
Computing
Our solid-state-drives (SSDs) are helping change the computing
landscape. Regardless if it's lowering the power consumption and
reducing the footprint of cloud-based data centers or boosting the
storage capacity of an enthusiast's laptop, flash memory-based SSDs
are increasingly becoming an attractive alternative to traditional
hard disk drives (HDDs).
Consumer Electronics
Whether you are a professional photographer using a
top-of-the-line memory card, a consumer using one of the top
selling MP3 players on the market, or a business professional
relying on a secure USB drive, our consumer electronics products
improve your digital experience. Renowned for their quality,
performance and reliability, our products regularly win industry
awards for innovation.
SanDisk: Quality Customers Rely On
The SanDisk brand stands for quality that consumers count on to
store their precious memories, and companies count on for reliable
access to mission-critical data. SanDisk leverages its vertically
integrated model to deliver this competitive differentiation. By
focusing on leading edge R&D and utilizing world-class
manufacturing facilities, our customers benefit from our
uncompromising pursuit of excellence across our entire product
portfolio.
Large-Scale Manufacturing
To satisfy customers' growing need for SanDisk flash memory, we
employ high-volume, cost-effective manufacturing and assembly
techniques that enable us to ship more than two million flash
products each day. In partnership with Toshiba, we operate some of
the largest, most advanced NAND flash manufacturing facilities in
the world and push the envelope to develop efficient,
next-generation technologies, such as our 19 nanometer (nm)
technology. Not only does this lower the overall cost of our
solutions, but it also enables SanDisk to deliver highly advanced
flash capabilities to our customers.
Transformational Technology
We invented flash mass storage cards, pioneered the USB drive
and developed advanced flash technologies, which contributed to
reducing the cost of flash memory by 50,000 times over twenty
years. Today, our three-bit-per-cell (X3) technology, advanced
architectures and other flash memory innovations are enabling new
types of products. Tomorrow, our research into 3D memory and other
types of memory solutions is expected to drive the future of the
storage industry, and deliver an exciting new range of consumer
devices built on these SanDisk innovations.
Industry-Wide Relationships
SanDisk collaborates with a broad range of third parties to
ensure that consumers and businesses get faster access to content,
more optimized network bandwidth, and an improved mobile experience
when using our intelligent flash memory. The SanDisk ecosystem
includes leading device manufacturers, operating system (OS)
vendors, mobile network operators, universities, system integrators
and design firms, chipset providers, application developers,
standards bodies and Hollywood studios.
SanDisk: At a Glance
Stock Symbol: SNDK (NASDAQ)
Corporate Facts
- Fortune 500 company
- S&P 500 company since April 2006
- $5.66 billion annual revenues in 2011
- $513 million R&D spending in 2011
- 3 world-class NAND flash manufacturing plants operated in
cooperation with Toshiba
- Large-scale product assembly and test facility owned and
operated by SanDisk
- Approximately 4,000 employees worldwide
- Committed to corporate social responsibility
- Engaged with the top mobile electronic device manufacturers and
enterprise companies
- Approximately 250,000 storefronts worldwide offer SanDisk
products
International Operations
Europe: Israel,
France, Germany, Ireland, Scotland, Spain and Sweden
Asia-Pacific: Australia, China, India and
Japan
Americas: Canada, the United States and Latin
America
Media Contact: sandisk.pr@sandisk.com
Investor Contact: ir@sandisk.com