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Timeline of Innovation

2003

  • Business Week lists SanDisk among “World's Best 100 Performing Technology Companies”
  • Introduces four gigabyte CompactFlash Card — world's highest capacity CompactFlash memory card
  • Introduces world's smallest removable flash card for mobile phone, the miniSD Card

2002

  • Toshiba and SanDisk introduce next-generation 2 Gigabit NAND flash device based on 0.13 micron technology
  • Hitachi, Ingentix, Matsushita, SanDisk and Toshiba develop new Mobile Security Standard for flash memory cards
  • SanDisk and Toshiba finalize consolidation of their FlashVision Manufacturing at Toshiba's Yokkaichi, Japan memory fab
  • Hires first employee in China

2001

  • Introduces world's first 1 Gigabit CF cards

2000

  • Introduces high-capacity, NAND flash memory chips for digital devices
  • Named by Fortune Magazine as one of the “Top 100 Fastest Growing Companies”
  • Hires 1,000th employee
  • Hires first employee in Taiwan