Sandisk
American semiconductor company - memory and storage technologies
Sandisk Corporation (formerly SunDisk Corporation and SanDisk Corporation) is an American multinational computer semiconductor company based in Milpitas, California.
Founded in 1988, it designs and manufactures flash memory products, including memory cards, USB flash drives, and solid-state drives (SSDs).
History
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, SunDisk 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, SunDisk 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. Unlike other similar products at the time, FlashDisks did not require a battery to store their contents. The company 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.
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