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Even SanDisk Is Surprised by MacBook Pro Add-On

David Lidsky — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:42:59 -0400

Bad News For Your Gadgets: Toshiba, Sandisk Slash Flash Memory Production

Kit Eaton — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:14:32 -0500

Toshiba and Sandisk had plans to increase production of NAND flash memory chips as part of their Flash Alliance fab partnership, after both companies opened new 300-mm wafer fab plants last year. But the recession has taken two bites out of the market, and both companies are now scaling back plans radically.

The Solid State Revolution

Paul Hochman — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:30:48 -0500

On Christmas morning, or soon thereafter, your laptop will go silent. So will your family's video camera. The quiet will spread worldwide. In Delhi, the huge data centers that store your customers' information will fall into an electronic hush. Even your TiVo will go mute. There will be no more flywheels. No more fans. No more hard-drive platters spinning for data, gorging on electricity, and clattering to an apocalyptic stop whenever the power goes out. Because moving parts are dead. The new state of our union will be: solid.

SanDisk Proposes Memory Card Albums

Chris Dannen — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 09:37:30 -0400

SanDisk [SNDK] is betting that you miss going into a store and buying music the old fashioned way. Well, not the "old-fashioned" way, exactly -- but on memory cards instead of CDs. Memory cards packed with DRM-free music, and sold at Best Buy [BBY] and Wal-Mart [WMT]. The gamble is part of a new strategy the company hopes will allow them to keep up revenues and continue to stave off bids for purchase by Samsung [SEO:005930], who recently offered $5.8 billion USD for the company.

Samsung Attempts Purchase of SanDisk

Chris Dannen — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:50:16 -0400

Samsung [005930] had a few billion laying around, so the company decided today to make an unsolicited offer to purchase Flash memory maker SanDisk [SNDK]. In what was apparently an attempt to broaden its influence as the second-largest chipmaker in the world, and perhaps to expand its growing solid-state memory offerings, Samsung bid $26 in cash for the company, or a total of $5.85 billion. That represents a margin of 93% higher than the company's share price the day on September 4th, a day before Samsung expressed industry. SNDK's share price responded by jumping 56% after hours today.

SanDisk Announces 32GB CompactFlash Cards

Chris Dannen — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:20:41 -0400

Let's say you take a lot of photos. A lot of photos. Like, tens of thousands. Well, SanDisk [NASDAQ:SNDK] announced the CompactFlash card of your dreams this week: a 32GB card, double their old max capacity of 16GB. The new 32GB card will be branded in SanDisk's Extreme III series.

Before this announcement, you couldn't really consider CompactFlash cards anything but still camera storage, for practical purposes. But with that much space, storing even HD video seems feasible: about 80-minutes worth will fit on SanDisk's new card, which isn't too shabby.

Sandisk Intros New SDHC Cards

Chris Dannen — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:36:08 -0400

Sandisk [NASDAQ:SNDK] has a nifty little technology called Extreme III that the company says improves speed and reliability in its data storage cards. The only problem with Extreme III, until this week, was that it wasn't present in the company's high end SDHC cards. Sandisk has finally ameliorated this caveat with a new group of cards that can achieve 30MBps read and write data speeds, which is about 50% faster than the old cards, according to Sandisk press materials.