By establishing SanDisk in 1998, Dr. Eli Harari aimed to become one of the largest suppliers of innovative flash memory data storage cards and SanDisk set its footprints in developing and manufacturing such storage cards. Today, its flash storage card products are used in various consumer electronic products.

Headquartered in Milpitas, California, SanDisk became a publicly traded company in November 1995. In 2006 its revenue grew to $3.3 billion.

With more than 2000 employees, worldwide, SanDisk has operations in North America, Japan, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. It also licenses its technology to a number of other industry-leading companies.

Under Chinnu Senthilkumar's leadership in India, SanDisk has been building its presence with the opening of a flash memory design center in Bangalore earlier in 2006.

Currently, it has approximately 600 issued U.S. patents, and more than 300 foreign patents, and is the only company, worldwide, that has the rights to both manufacture and sell every major flash card format, including CompactFlash, SD, miniSD, microSD, MultiMediaCard, Reduced Size MultiMediaCard, Memory Stick PRO and related Memory Stick products, xD-Picture Card and USB flash drives.

Serving consumers, with more than 200,000 retail storefronts worldwide, and original equipment manufacturers, SanDisk designs, develops, manufactures and markets flash storage card products for a wide variety of electronic systems and digital devices. SanDisk has recently collaborated with Rashi Peripherals, one of India's largest IT distributors, to sell SanDisk products throughout the country. It has also plans to increase its 2,000 stores to 14,000-plus by the end of 2007.

SanDisk is the original inventor of flash storage cards and is the world's largest supplier of flash data storage card products using its patented, high-density flash memory and controller technology.