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Company type | Subsidiary (spin-off pending) |
Nasdaq: SNDK | |
Industry | Computer data storage |
Founded | June 1, 1988[1] |
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Headquarters | , |
Products | |
Number of employees | 8,790 |
Parent | Western Digital (2016–present; spin-off pending) |
Website | www |
Sandisk Corporation 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] then renamed to SanDisk LLC in 2016 when it was acquired by Western Digital.[3] The company changed its name back to Sandisk Corporation (now with the lowercase "D"), as the result of the planned spin-off from Western Digital, that will occur in 2025.
As of March 2019,[update] Western Digital was the fourth-largest manufacturer of flash memory having declined from third-largest in 2014.[4]