About SanDisk
SanDisk is a pioneering flash memory storage company founded in 1988 as SunDisk by Eli Harari, Sanjay Mehrotra, and Jack Yuan. Co-founder Eli Harari developed the Floating Gate EEPROM technology that proved the practicality, reliability, and endurance of semiconductor-based data storage, laying the foundation for the flash memory revolution. In 1991, SanDisk produced the first flash-based solid-state drive (SSD) for IBM, with a 20 MB capacity in a 2.5-inch form factor priced at approximately $1,000—a groundbreaking achievement that would eventually transform data storage. The following year, they introduced the FlashDisk PCMCIA memory cards for laptops. The company renamed itself SanDisk in 1995 to avoid confusion with Sun Microsystems and went public on Nasdaq. SanDisk continued innovating, entering the digital audio player market in 2005 with the Sansa MP3 player line, becoming the second-largest manufacturer in the US after Apple by 2006. In May 2016, Western Digital acquired SanDisk for $16 billion, combining traditional hard drive technology with flash storage expertise. In February 2025, SanDisk was spun off from Western Digital as an independent company, relisting on Nasdaq under its original SNDK ticker symbol. The company unveiled a new pixel-inspired logo in December 2024, marking a fresh chapter while building on over 35 years of flash memory innovation.










