SanDisk

SanDisk Corporation
Subsidiary
Industry Storage devices
Founded 1988 (1988)
Founders Eli Harari, Sanjay Mehrotra and Jack Yuan
Headquarters Milpitas, California, United States
Key people
 Sanjay Mehrotra (President & CEO) (2011 - 2016)
Products Memory cards
USB flash drives
DRAM
Portable media players
Solid-state drives
Parent Western Digital
Website www.sandisk.com

SanDisk Corporation is an American manufacturer of flash memory products, including memory cards and readers, USB flash drives, and solid state drives. As of February 2015, SanDisk is the third-largest manufacturer of flash memory.[1]

On May 12, 2016, SanDisk was acquired by hard drive manufacturer Western Digital in a US$19 billion deal.[2][3]

History

SanDisk founders: Jack Yuan, Eli Harari, and Sanjay Mehrotra (2010)

SanDisk was founded in 1988 by Eli Harari, Sanjay Mehrotra and Jack Yuan, incorporated at the time as SunDisk.[4] SanDisk co-founder Eli Harari developed the Floating Gate EEPROM which proved the practicality, reliability and endurance of semiconductor-based data storage.[5] 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.[6]

Acquisitions

  • In October 2005, SanDisk acquired Matrix Semiconductor.[7]
  • In July 2006, SanDisk acquired M-Systems.[8]
  • In May 2011, SanDisk acquired Pilant Technology, a manufacturer of solid state drives, for US$327 million.[9]
  • In February 2012, SanDisk acquired FlashSoft.[10]
  • In June 2012, SanDisk acquired Schooner Information Technology, developer of the flash-optimized database software SchoonerSQL and caching software Membrain.[10]
  • In July 2013, SanDisk acquired SMART Storage Systems, a producer of SSDs for the enterprise market, for US$307 million.[11]
  • In June 2014, SanDisk acquired Fusion-io, a producer of flash memory for enterprise datacenters, for $1.1 billion.[12]
  • In May 2016, SanDisk was acquired by Western Digital for $19 billion

Awards and recognition

Other products and technologies

References

  1. ↑ "Market View: NAND Flash Brand Supplier Revenue Falls 6.6% in First Quarter". DRAMeXchange. 2015-02-05. Retrieved 2015-07-23.
  2. ↑ "Western Digital to acquire SanDisk for $19B". USA Today. Gannett Company. October 21, 2015. Retrieved October 22, 2015.
  3. ↑ "Western Digital officially closes SanDisk acquisition". The Verge. Vox Media. May 12, 2016. Retrieved August 3, 2016.
  4. ↑ Harris, Scott Duke (2008-07-13). "Mercury News interview: SanDisk CEO helped launch digital revolution". The San Jose Mercury News. Retrieved 2008-08-06.
  5. ↑ "Santa Clara Valley Chapter Meeting: 'Future Directions for Semiconductor Non-Volatile Memory". Santa Clara University: IEEE Electron Devices Society. January 16, 1990.
  6. ↑ "Toshiba and SanDisk Enter Joint Venture". New York Times. May 10, 2000.
  7. ↑ "SanDisk to acquire Matrix Semiconductor". CNET. Retrieved 3 August 2016.
  8. ↑ "SanDisk To Buy msystems". The Street. 2006-07-31. Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2006-08-21.
  9. ↑ "SanDisk Plans To Buy SSD Maker Pliant Technology". CRN.com. Retrieved 3 August 2016.
  10. 1 2 "SanDisk Buys Schooner, Moves Into Enterprise Software Space". CRN.com. Retrieved 3 August 2016.
  11. ↑ "SanDisk acquires SMART Storage Systems for $307 million". ZDNet. Retrieved 3 August 2016.
  12. ↑ "SanDisk to Acquire Troubled Fusion-io for $1.2 Billion". Recode. Vox Media. Retrieved 3 August 2016.
  13. ↑ Fairsmith, Christine (Oct 24, 2014). "ELI HARARI '73 RECEIVES HONOR FROM PRESIDENT OBAMA". Princeton. Retrieved 2014-10-24.
  14. ↑ Lezhnev, Sasha; Alex Hellmuth (Aug 2012). "Taking Conflict Out of Consumer Gadgets: Company Rankings on Conflict Minerals 2012" (PDF). Enough Project. Retrieved 2012-08-17.


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