SanDisk

SanDisk Corporation is an American storage solutions company that designs, develops and manufactures flash memory storage devices and software. SanDisk is the third-largest manufacturer of flash memory in the world.

In October 2015, Western Digital agreed to buy SanDisk Corp in a $19 billion deal. The proposed acquisition was cleared by the Competition Commission of Singapore (CCS) on 20 January 2016.

Description

SanDisk manufactures storage products used in data centers and embedded in smartphones, tablets and PCs. SanDisk’s consumer products are available at 300,000 retail stores in more than 100 countries.

SanDisk is led by Sanjay Mehrotra, co-founder, president, and chief executive officer. The Fortune 500 and S&P 500 company is headquartered in Silicon Valley and has offices, design centers, test and assembly plants and NAND flash memory fabs located around the world. The company has manufacturing facilities in China, Japan and Malaysia. SanDisk has sales, operations, research and development, and administration in the United States, China, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Israel, Japan, South Korea, Russia, Scotland, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, and the United Arab Emirates. More than half the company’s sales are outside the United States.