SanDisk headquarters in Milpitas, California
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Subsidiary | |
Industry | Storage devices |
Founded | 1988 |
Founders | Eli Harari, Sanjay Mehrotra and Jack Yuan |
Headquarters | Milpitas, California, United States |
Key people
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Sanjay Mehrotra (President & CEO) |
Products |
Memory cards USB flash drives DRAM Portable media players Solid-state drives |
Parent | Western Digital |
Website | www |
SanDisk is an American manufacturer of flash memory products, including memory cards and readers, USB flash drives, and solid state drives. As of February 2015[update], it is third-largest manufacturer of flash memory.
On May 12, 2016, SanDisk was acquired by hard drive manufacturer Western Digital in a US$19 billion deal.
SanDisk was founded in 1988 by Eli Harari, Sanjay Mehrotra and Jack Yuan. SanDisk co-founder Eli Harari developed the Floating Gate EEPROM which proved the practicality, reliability and endurance of semiconductor-based data storage.