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SanDisk Now Shipping Flash Memory Cards with 64Gb X4 NAND Flash Technology

SanDisk, one of the world's leading vendors of flash-based storage solutions, has announced today that it has begun production shipments of its next-generation flash memory cards, developed on the company's advanced X4 flash memory technology. According to the Milpitas, California-based flash memory vendor,...

13 October 2009
08:22 GMT

SanDisk Rolls Out New CF Cards for Professional Users

SanDisk, one of the world's leading vendors of Flash-based storage products, has just announced the introduction of its new line of Extreme Pro CompactFlash memory cards, specifically designed to provide professional photographers with a new, high-performance storage alternative for their high-end cameras. Accor...

14 September 2009
09:36 GMT

SanDisk Cruzer Enterprise Now Meets the Requirements of Government Employees

SanDisk, one of the world's leading vendors of flash memory cards, has announced today that its line of Cruzer Enterprise secure USB flash drives have now been enhanced with features that make them meet the requirements of government employees. These portable storage solutions have been specifically designed to ...

18 August 2009
10:07 GMT

SanDisk Unveils World's Highest-Performance 32GB SDHC

SanDisk, one of the world's leading vendors of Flash-based memory cards, has recently announced the introduction of a new 32GB SDHC card, claiming it is the world's fastest SDHC solution. Featuring write and read speeds of 30MB/s, the new memory card is designed to deliver high-performance levels to digital...

25 June 2009
02:52 GMT

SanDisk Also Intros Netbook SDHC Cards

SanDisk looks to grab a significant part of the netbook market by introducing new hardware for this segment. Following the release of its new high-speed solid state drives for netbook computer systems, the flash memory vendor also decided to introduce a fresh SDHC card specifically designed to provide netbook users w...

3 June 2009
01:22 GMT

SanDisk Starts Shipping High-Speed SSDs for Netbooks

With netbooks becoming a mainstream choice for most computer enthusiasts, leading hardware providers are presenting their latest solutions for the netbook market. On that note, SanDisk has just announced that it has begun shipping its next-generation flash memory-based Solid State Drives (SSDs) for the netbook comput...

2 June 2009
06:58 GMT

SanDisk Announces the Service Delivery Card

SanDisk Corporation, a worldwide leading provider of flash storage cards, announced today, at the Mobile World Congress, its SanDisk Service Delivery Card (SDC), a custom memory solution that delivers high storage capacity. The solution is based on a microSD card and has been specifically developed for Mobile Network...

16 February 2009
08:54 GMT

SanDisk X4 Technology to Enable SD Cards with 64GB of Storage

With the increasing demand for higher-capacity storage solutions being delivered in increasingly smaller packages, SanDisk has just announced at the International Solid State Circuits technology conference in San Francisco, that it will begin the mass production of memory chips designed to allow consumers to store up...

10 February 2009
04:58 GMT

SanDisk to Own Less of the Manufacturing Joint Venture with Toshiba

Following reports that Toshiba has bought Fujitsu's hard disk drive business, SanDisk has just announced that it will own less of the manufacturing joint venture with Toshiba. The two companies have reached a definitive agreement according to which SanDisk will transfer more than 20 percent of its equipment leas...

30 January 2009
05:47 GMT

LG and SanDisk Allow Carriers to Manage Memory Card Content

LG Electronics and SanDisk Corporation announced the development of a new technology for mobile phones, which is meant to allow carriers to offer their users multimedia services on removable flash memory cards. The two demonstrated the advancement on the new LG KC910 Renoir, showing how it could ensure that the cont...

15 January 2009
10:21 GMT

Details on Rock Band 2 DLC for the Nintendo Wii

At the Consumer Electronics Show, Harmonix already made a big announcement, saying that Rock Band 3 would not arrive in 2009, a music game focused on songs from The Beatles taking over the development time of the studio. Now, the company is also offering some details regarding downloadable tracks for the Rock Band 2 ...

12 January 2009
03:25 GMT

SanDisk Claims World's Fastest MLC SSD Family

SanDisk, one of the leading vendors of Flash-based storage devices, has announced today the introduction of its third-generation family of solid-state drives (SSDs). The new SanDisk G3 Series has been designed using a multi-level cell NAND flash memory technology, which enables higher levels of performance in the SSD...

8 January 2009
09:20 GMT

SanDisk Unveils 16GB microSD and M2 Memory Cards

SanDisk announced recently that it planned to start shipping two new memory cards that would be included in the company's Mobile Ultra line later on this month. The maker also said that the new 16GB microSD and M2 memory units would come bundled with MobileMate Micro Reader to allow for a fast and easy USB conne...

8 January 2009
05:45 GMT

SanDisk Announces Next-Gen SSDs for Netbooks

SanDisk has just announced its next-generation flash memory-based solid state drives, designed to provide storage support for the increasingly popular netbook market. According to the company, these new SSDs have been designed to provide both performance and high-capacity storage for those ultra-portable computer sys...

6 January 2009
10:37 GMT

SanDisk's Mobile Phone Memory Cards Engineering Award Honoree

SanDisk Corporation recently announced having been named an International CES Innovations 2009 Design and Engineering Awards Honoree for the 16 gigabyte (GB) microSDHC and Memory Stick Micro (M2) memory cards it developed for mobile phones. Independent industrial designers, engineers and members of the trade press ar...

23 December 2008
05:04 GMT

Toshiba, SanDisk to Cut Production of Flash Chips by 30%

On Monday, Toshiba announced that it planned to cut the production of its memory chips by as much as 30 percent, as part of a process that is slated to start sometime next January. The announcement was accompanied by a similar notice on behalf of SanDisk, which operates manufacturing lines jointly with Toshiba. The t...

16 December 2008
03:44 GMT

SanDisk Unveils Secure USB Flash Drive for Mac Users

SanDisk, one of the leading makers of portable storage media, has made an important step forward with the release of a new secure flash USB drive, part of the company's Cruzer Enterprise range of portable storage solutions. The feature that differentiates this product from similar models coming from the same com...

5 December 2008
08:57 GMT

SanDisk Bumps Sansa Clip Memory up to 8GB

The Sansa Clip has been around for quite a long time now, but, despite its success, it somehow lacked the capacity to fight against some of the other ultra-portable players around, the main reason being the relatively limited amount of available memory. However, it seems that SanDisk has decided to take care of this ...

12 November 2008
07:51 GMT

Sandisk: SSDs Will Feature Higher Speed Rates in 2009

Sandisk announced today the introduction of a new flash file management system for solid state disk (SSD) drives. According to the company, the technology will allow for random write rates accelerations at a factor of up to 100x. Still, the net speed will only be leveraged four times in the short term, while the perf...

6 November 2008
06:17 GMT

SanDisk Reports Q3 Loss, Samsung Loses Interest

Last month, Samsung officially expressed in an open letter its intentions of buying flash memory manufacturer SanDisk, thus placing an offer for the latter to analyze. Samsung offered $26 per share, which, based on SanDisk's share total of approximately 225 million, would have raised the value of the transactio...

22 October 2008
05:06 GMT

SanDisk Cruzer Enterprise to Feature Anti-Malware Protection from McAfee

As you probably know quite well already, the security of one's personal data is a critical issue nowadays, especially if we're talking about very sensitive information, whose loss, theft or corruption could have very bad consequences for both the user and his/her employer. And since most data-theft threats ...

22 October 2008
01:57 GMT

128GB microSDHC Cards on the Way

Bigger is always better, or so they say. This always applies when it comes to storage space though, and it seems that the SanDisk Corporation, inventor of flash storage cards, is on its way of proving that once more. The company has already made available, last month, the 16GB microSD and M2 memory cards. Now, i...

21 October 2008
05:34 GMT

Toshiba to Buy Sandisk's Share in Joint Venture

Toshiba is said to have started discussions for a possible purchase of SanDisk's manufacturing facilities, as some voices from the Japanese market report. SanDisk is known as the largest supplier of flash drives on the U.S. market. Last month, the company received takeover bids from some of the industry pla...

20 October 2008
04:00 GMT

SanDisk Unveils Sansa slotMusic Player – No Bells or Whistles Here

Without a doubt, SanDisk is one of the most important flash memory manufacturers out there, but the truth of the matter is that lately it's made some more or less wrong moves on the market by trying to tackle certain market segments where its chances of success aren't exactly high. That's also the case...

16 October 2008
02:26 GMT

Toshiba Has No Interest in Acquiring SanDisk

Last month, Samsung officially placed an offer of $5.8 billion for the acquisition of SanDisk, which was almost instantly turned down by the flash memory manufacturer. After the offer was rejected, several other companies, including Intel and Seagate, were rumored to have shown signs of interest in engaging in a pos...

3 October 2008
07:12 GMT

SanDisk Will Launch the World's First 16GB Mobile Phone Memory Cards via Verizon and Best Buy

SanDisk, the Californian maker and distributor of flash storage cards and other similar products, has announced the release of the world's first 16GB memory cards for mobile phones. The new cards are not yet commercially available, but they will be starting October. Best Buy will start to sell them next month, w...

30 September 2008
02:58 GMT

SanDisk Presents Faster, Larger Extreme IV CompactFlash Cards

Photokina is not only an event where the most important names in digital photography showcase their products, but it's also a very good opportunity for memory card makers to announce new and improved models, designed for the various camera segments out there. We've seen yesterday some pretty interesting ann...

24 September 2008
03:01 GMT

SanDisk's 'slotMusic' Offers DRM-Free MP3 Music

After turning down Samsung's acquisition offer, the flash-based memory vendor SanDisk has announced today the introduction of a new physical music format dubbed “slotMusic,” which will be delivered in the form of microSD cards. In addition, the company has also announced that its new media storage s...

22 September 2008
05:06 GMT

More Companies Interested in SanDisk's Acquisition

Last week, SanDisk turned down Samsung's offer of acquisition. It seems that the price per share offered now is lower than the one at the beginning of the discussions, and the company wants more money. As recent news shows, other companies seem to be interested in getting their hands on the flash memory company....

22 September 2008
02:57 GMT

Samsung Offers $5.8 Billion for SanDisk

Not very long ago, we informed you about Samsung's intentions to acquire SanDisk, a leading manufacturer of flash-based memory products. Back then, no type of feedback came from SanDisk, while the exact details of a possible acquisition weren't available. However, it appears that the Taiwan-based company ha...

17 September 2008
04:08 GMT

SanDisk Intros Ultra-Fast, 32GB Extreme III CompactFlash Card

Flash memory is becoming the favorite storage media for a lot of devices nowadays, including here professional video cameras (while digital photo cameras have used it since they first appeared on the market). For this reason, SanDisk, one of the world's largest manufacturers of flash-based storage solutions, has...

12 September 2008
15:51 GMT

Samsung Considering SanDisk Acquisition

Samsung Electronics, one of the largest manufacturers of consumer electronics, is planning to acquire SanDisk, a leading maker of flash memory card products. In an interview with Reuters and cited by the online newspaper eDaily, a representative for the South Korea-based company confirmed that Samsung was considering...

5 September 2008
08:58 GMT

SanDisk Extreme III Breaks SDHC Speed Record, Reaches 30MB/s

Generally, memory card manufacturers tend to launch new and enhanced memory cards long before the digital cameras actually capable of taking full advantage of their features arrive on the market. However, that's not the case with SanDisk, who, in order to compliment the launch of Nikon's D90, has just annou...

26 August 2008
17:51 GMT

SanDisk Rolls out Memory Cards Featuring Unaltered Data Storage

SanDisk Corporation announced today the introduction of a new digital memory card, the SanDisk SD WORM (Write Once Read Many). The card is designed for professional use, as for any application that requires data files to be protected against alteration or deletion, like police investigations, court testimony, electro...

24 July 2008
04:19 GMT

Seagate Might Attempt SanDisk Takeover

It's becoming pretty clear that SSDs represent the future of storage as we know it. This is the reason why most of the major manufacturers on the storage market are trying their best in order to catch a spot on this bandwagon to the future. Some of them might even try some extreme solutions, like going for their...

25 June 2008
14:51 GMT

Toshiba and SanDisk Team up to Bring 3D Memory on the Market

This Tuesday, Toshiba and SanDisk signed an agreement according to which the companies would be teaming up to develop and manufacture 3D memory. The news was largely overlooked as all eyes in the hardware industry were drawn to NVIDIA's official release of its latest GT200 series of graphics cards. But, thanks t...

20 June 2008
06:10 GMT

SanDisk Mobile Ultra Memory Cards Made Available

SanDisk Corporation, a leader in flash memory, announced today the launch of the industry's first premium mobile phone storage cards. The SanDisk Mobile Ultra, microSD, microSDHC and Memory Stick Micro (M2) flash mobile memory cards are available in 2GB, 4GB and 8GB capacities and will be launched at CommunicAsi...

17 June 2008
10:43 GMT

SanDisk, Intel and TDK Expected to Launch SSDs

If we are to take a look at the product releases coming from this year's Computex show in Taipei, we can say with certainty that SSDs are likely to become the standard storage solution very soon. SanDisk, TDK and Intel are among the biggest names to announce new solid-state drives. On top of that, ASUS has also ...

3 June 2008
09:30 GMT

SanDisk Pushes Memory Stick PRO-HG Duo Performance to 30MB/s

Hinting at Sony's plans concerning professional photographers or extremely serious amateurs, SanDisk has announced today the fastest card in its Memory Stick lineup, namely the new Extreme III Memory Stick PRO-HG Duo available in 4-gigabyte and 8-gigabyte capacities. Given the capacities and the performance, th...

29 May 2008
06:02 GMT

SanDisk Unveils Speedy "Mobile Ultra" Memory Cards

SanDisk announced the release of a new series of memory cards for mobile phones, the "Mobile Ultra" cards, which bring advanced performances and more speed when it comes to data transfers. The cards have storage capacities of 2GB, 4GB and 8GB respectively, being available either in the microSD/microSDHC format or in ...

22 May 2008
06:51 GMT

Sandisk Stuffs Enterprise Networking on a Flash Drive

There's nothing fancier these days than virtualization and enterprise-class security, but, if you manage to stuff them both into the same product, you can lay back and cash in the millions. Sandisk thinks the same and announced that it has teamed up with security specialist Check Point to build a secure virtual ...

25 April 2008
08:15 GMT

Users Couldn't Care Less of Their USB Sticks

SanDisk, one of the most important names when it comes to storage solutions, has published a report, underlining the risks of losing the data copied on USB flash drives. According to the study findings, no less than 77 percent of the corporate end users turn to USB sticks in order to store work-related material, no m...

14 April 2008
06:09 GMT

SanDisk's Cruzer Enterprise USB Stick Gets Security Update

USB sticks are extremely common and comfortable storage media. Most of the PC users carry large amounts of important information from work to their home computers and the other way around. While losing a flash drive would punch an insignificant $12 hole in your pocket, value of the information lost with the disk can ...

8 April 2008
16:56 GMT

SanDisk Goes for Apple's Neck...Sort Of

Apple's iTunes service represents probably the best-known method of music distribution, next to the CD and DVD, of course. However, it would seem that the people over at SanDisk are seriously considering a whole new approach to this concept, as they've announced that the company will promote DRM-free music ...

20 March 2008
14:51 GMT

SanDisk Unveils the Long-Rumored Sansa Fuze MP3 Player

As you might remember from one of our previous articles, we've managed to have a very insightful conversation with one of SanDisk's reps at CeBIT, who, among other facts, also revealed that SanDisk was preparing to launch a hot new product, designed to fill in the void between the Clip and the View models. ...

12 March 2008
04:05 GMT

CeBIT 2008: SanDisk's Vaulter Disk in Action

San Disk is one of the most important names in the storage solutions' industry, so it's actually no wonder that the company has brought forth its best offerings at this year's CeBIT. Whether we're talking about SSDs, various memory card types, as well as the other goodies on the side. The first th...

7 March 2008
06:38 GMT

CeBIT 2008: SanDisk To Launch New Sansa Player in Just 2 Weeks

Although SanDisk has come packed with its full arsenal at this year's CeBIT, as far as its storage-related products are concerned, the portable multimedia player's corner was rather poorly populated. However, it would seem that things are about to change in just a few weeks' time, as the company plans ...

7 March 2008
05:51 GMT

Sony Sells Chip Facility for $835 Million, Toshiba Ramps Up Capacity

Sony has just announced that it will sell its microprocessor production facilities in western Japan to Toshiba in exchange of $835 million. The purchase agreement is one of the final steps the companies are taking in order to consolidate their business partnership.The inventory located at the chip production facility...

20 February 2008
11:57 GMT

Toshiba, SanDisk Join to Build New NAND Flash Wafer Fab

Toshiba and SanDisk have jointly announced that they have inked a non-binding memorandum to set the basis of a production joint venture with a 300-mm wafer fabrication plant in Japan. The two companies will produce NAND flash memory using their proprietary technologies.The joint venture is still in an early stage, an...

19 February 2008
07:22 GMT

Solid-State Drives Are Getting Larger and Better

Solid-state storage is continuously gaining more and more attention from the mobile enthusiasts. Flash-based storage is thinner, more energy-saving and has better access timings than the conventional hard-disk drives. They are the best pick for notebooks such as the ethereal MacBook Air or Lenovo's Thinkpad X300...

15 February 2008
04:37 GMT


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