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Company type | Subsidiary |
Nasdaq: SNDK | |
Industry | Storage devices |
Founded | June 1, 1988[1] |
Founders | Eli Harari Sanjay Mehrotra Jack Yuan |
Headquarters | , |
Products | |
Number of employees | 8,790 |
Parent | Western Digital (2016–present) |
Website | shop |
SanDisk LLC is an American multinational computer technology company based in Milpitas, California. It is known for its flash memory products, including memory cards and readers, USB flash drives, solid-state drives, and digital audio players. The company was founded in 1988 as SunDisk Corporation and renamed in 1995 as SanDisk Corporation;[2] it assumed its current name in 2016 when it was acquired by Western Digital.[3]
As of March 2019,[update] Western Digital was the fourth-largest manufacturer of flash memory having declined from third-largest in 2014.[4]