SanDisk is the world's largest supplier of flash memory data storage cards. The company was founded on 1988 by Dr. Harari Eli, an international authority in the field of non-volatile storage technology. 10, SanDisk became a listed company, and the Nasdaq stock code was SNDK. In 2004, SanDisk's revenue reached1800 million USD. At present, the company has about 900 employees worldwide. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, USA. SanDisk's products are currently sold through more than125,000 retail stores around the world, including more than 23,000 retail stores in Asia Pacific (excluding Japan).
SanDisk's Asia-Pacific headquarters is located in Hong Kong. SanDisk also has sales offices in Shanghai, Taipei and Seoul, and sells products through the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) channel and the network of distributors and retailers in many Asian countries and regions, including China, Taiwan Province Province, South Korea, Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines.
Sandisk designs, develops, manufactures and sells flash memory card products for various electronic systems. Flash cards allow data to be stored in a compact and removable format. Sandisk's flash memory card products help to promote the mass market sales of digital cameras, multimedia mobile phones, USB flash drives and other digital consumer devices. SanDisk holds more than 350 patents in the United States and other countries, and licenses its technology to many companies.
SanDisk is the only company that has the right to manufacture and sell all major flash card formats, including CompactFlash? (CF)、SD？ 、miniSD？ 、SmartMedia？ , multimedia card? (MMC), memory stick PRO? And other memory sticks? Products, and xD-Picture cards? And USB flash drives. Most of the revenue of the company's flash memory card products comes from sales to retailers, and the rest comes from sales to OEMs.
SanDisk focuses on three digital consumer markets: digital cameras and other consumer electronic products, full-featured mobile phones and USB flash drives.
Sandisk is a leader in the production and sales of flash memory cards, accounting for about one-third of the global market share. According to the report of Semico Research, the revenue of global flash memory card market reached $3.3 billion in 2003, and it is predicted that the revenue of this market will increase to $654.38+0.2 billion in 2006. Sandisk's strategy is to determine the mass consumer market of flash memory products and manufacture a large number of flash memory cards in various major formats for the target market, so that Sandisk can provide one-stop procurement services for its retail and OEM users. SanDisk's revenue in fiscal year 2004 was1800 million dollars, which was higher than 1 10 billion dollars in 2003. The net profit in 2004 was $267 million.
SanDisk's products also include USB flash drives (Cruze? Product line), SanDisk Ultra is suitable for advanced and professional photographers? II and SanDisk Extreme? Series card products, PC cards and card readers. The storage capacity of Flash Dica varies from 32MB to 4GB.