SanDisk Corp. -  Computer Storage -  Category Directory

140 Caspian Court

Sunnyvale, California 94089
(408) 542-0500

www.sandisk.com
 

Sales

$2.2 billion

Business Description 

SanDisk, the worldwide leader in flash storage card products, designs, develops, manufactures and markets flash storage card products used in a wide variety of electronic systems. Flash storage cards allow data to be stored in a compact, removable format. Our flash storage card products help enable mass market adoption of digital cameras, multimedia cellular phones, USB flash drives and other digital consumer devices. We are the only company that has rights to manufacture and sell every major flash card format, including Compact Flash, or CF, Secure Digital, or SD, miniSD, SmartMedia, FlashDisk, MultiMediaCards, or MMC, MemoryStick Pro and other Memory Stick products, xD-Picture cards, and USB flash drives. We do not operate fabrication facilities, but do control a significant portion of our flash memory wafer manufacturing through our FlashVision, Ltd., or FlashVision, joint venture, contracts with fabrication facility owners and contractual supply rights from other partners. Our supply arrangements consist of components produced through our FlashVision joint venture with Toshiba Corporation, or Toshiba, and through foundry arrangements with Toshiba, Samsung, Renesas, United Microelectronic Inc., or UMC, and Tower Semiconductor Ltd., or Tower. This multiple sourcing strategy enables us to fluctuate our supply with changes in demand. We receive a majority of our flash storage card product revenues from sales to retailers with the balance principally attributable to sales to original equipment manufacturers, or OEMs.

Our products include CF cards, SD cards, USB Flash Drives (Cruzer mini), miniSD cards, the Memory Stick family of products, Ultra II/ Extreme lines of product cards for professional photographers and xD cards. Storage capacities for our cards and USB drives range from 16 megabytes to 4 gigabytes. In fiscal 2003, our customers included Arrow Electronics, Inc., Avnet Electronics, AVS Technologies, Inc., Bell Microproducts, Inc., Best Buy Company, Inc., Canon, Inc., Circuit City Stores, Inc., Costco Wholesale Corporation, CompUSA Inc., DayMen Photo Marketing Ltd., Flextronics International Ltd., Eastman Kodak Company, Ericsson Inc., Hama Corporation, Hewlett-Packard Company, Holst Import BV, Ingram Micro, Inc., Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Mitsubishi Plastic Co. Ltd., Nikon Corporation, Office Depot, Inc., Siemens AG, Staples, Inc., Techni-Cine Photography, and Wynit, Inc., among others. In addition, we currently license our technologies to several companies including Intel Corporation, Lexar Media, Incorporated, Matsushita Electronics Corporation, Renesas, Samsung Electronics Company Ltd., Sharp Electronics Corporation, SmartDisk Corporation, Silicon Storage Technologies, Incorporated, Sony Corporation, TDK Corporation and Toshiba.
 

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