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SANDISK ACHIEVES BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE WITH 90NM NAND/MLC AND ADVANCED CONTROLLER TECHNOLOGY TO BOOST CAPACITIES FOR POPULAR ULTRA II HIGH-SPEED MEMORY CARDS
SanDisk Introduces Worlds First 8-Gigabyte ULTRA II CompactFlash Type I Card; Leads In Capacity and Performance for Memory Stick PRO and SD Formats
Sunnyvale, CA, Sept. 30, 2004 SanDisk® Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) announced today that its Multi-Level Cell (MLC) and advanced controller technology have allowed it to quadruple the capacity of its high-speed SanDisk Ultra® II cards. SanDisk now offers the worlds first 8 gigabyte (GB) CompactFlash® Type I card and 4GB SanDisk Ultra II Memory Stick PRO and 2GB SanDisk Ultra II SD cards, and maintains their award-winning minimum write speed of 9 megabytes per second (MB/sec.) and minimum read speed of 10MB/sec.*
The new high capacity SanDisk Ultra II cards are designed to be a reasonably priced, high performance solution for the photography channel and were announced yesterday at the Photokina trade show in Cologne, Germany.
Yoram Cedar, SanDisks senior vice president of engineering, said, SanDisks engineers have been refining our NAND/MLC and advanced 32 bit controller architectures over the past 5 years, and we are now beginning to see the full fruits of these efforts. These new Ultra II cards employ our highest density 90nm 4-gigabit (Gb) NAND/MLC single-die tightly coupled with our latest generation controller chips. New high performance algorithms were implemented that maximize the MLC performance while benefiting from the lower cost per megabyte of MLC memory. These achievements in products that will ship in volume production in the coming quarter demonstrate the true power of the NAND/MLC technology that SanDisk and Toshiba have developed through our strategic partnership.
Jim Handy, director of non-volatile memory at Semico Research Company, said, The fact that SanDisk is now able to support their high-speed SanDisk Ultra II line of flash cards with MLC NAND speaks very highly of the companys command of MLC technology. Until now, MLC could not be used in SanDisks Ultra line of high-speed flash cards whose higher performance requirements ruled out MLCs cost savings. The company has found a way to bring MLCs improved cost structure into the market for top-of-the-line cards.
Pricing and Availability
The SanDisk Ultra II product line is available in CompactFlash, Memory Stick PRO and SD formats. Suggested retail prices and availability are as follows:
Capacities US$ (ex. VAT) Availability
Ultra II CF 256MB - 2GB $49.99 - $249.99 44.00 - 245.00 Now
4GB $479.99 465.00 October
8GB $959.99 930.00 November
Ultra II MS PRO 256MB 1GB $74.99 - $249.99 73.00 259.00 Now
2GB 4GB $479.99 - $959.99 495.00 - 990.00 November
Ultra II SD 256MB 512MB $64.99 - $89.99 45.00 - 72.00 Now
1GB 2GB $119.99 - $239.99 119.00 - 239.00 November
SanDisk Ultra II cards are available at most of the 80,000 consumer electronics stores and other retail outlets where SanDisk products are sold worldwide.
SanDisk, the worlds largest supplier of flash memory data storage card products, designs, manufactures and markets industry-standard, solid-state data, digital imaging and audio storage products using its patented, high density flash memory and controller technology. SanDisk is based in Sunnyvale, CA.
The matters discussed in this news release contain forward looking statements that are subject to certain risks and uncertainties as described under the caption, Factors That May Affect Future Results in the companys annual report on Form 10-K-A and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The companies assume no obligation to update the information in this release.
SANDISK ACHIEVES BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE WITH 90NM NAND/MLC AND ADVANCED CONTROLLER TECHNOLOGY TO BOOST CAPACITIES FOR POPULAR ULTRA II HIGH-SPEED MEMORY CARDS
SanDisk Introduces Worlds First 8-Gigabyte ULTRA II CompactFlash Type I Card; Leads In Capacity and Performance for Memory Stick PRO and SD Formats
Sunnyvale, CA, Sept. 30, 2004 SanDisk® Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) announced today that its Multi-Level Cell (MLC) and advanced controller technology have allowed it to quadruple the capacity of its high-speed SanDisk Ultra® II cards. SanDisk now offers the worlds first 8 gigabyte (GB) CompactFlash® Type I card and 4GB SanDisk Ultra II Memory Stick PRO and 2GB SanDisk Ultra II SD cards, and maintains their award-winning minimum write speed of 9 megabytes per second (MB/sec.) and minimum read speed of 10MB/sec.*
The new high capacity SanDisk Ultra II cards are designed to be a reasonably priced, high performance solution for the photography channel and were announced yesterday at the Photokina trade show in Cologne, Germany.
Yoram Cedar, SanDisks senior vice president of engineering, said, SanDisks engineers have been refining our NAND/MLC and advanced 32 bit controller architectures over the past 5 years, and we are now beginning to see the full fruits of these efforts. These new Ultra II cards employ our highest density 90nm 4-gigabit (Gb) NAND/MLC single-die tightly coupled with our latest generation controller chips. New high performance algorithms were implemented that maximize the MLC performance while benefiting from the lower cost per megabyte of MLC memory. These achievements in products that will ship in volume production in the coming quarter demonstrate the true power of the NAND/MLC technology that SanDisk and Toshiba have developed through our strategic partnership.
Jim Handy, director of non-volatile memory at Semico Research Company, said, The fact that SanDisk is now able to support their high-speed SanDisk Ultra II line of flash cards with MLC NAND speaks very highly of the companys command of MLC technology. Until now, MLC could not be used in SanDisks Ultra line of high-speed flash cards whose higher performance requirements ruled out MLCs cost savings. The company has found a way to bring MLCs improved cost structure into the market for top-of-the-line cards.
Pricing and Availability
The SanDisk Ultra II product line is available in CompactFlash, Memory Stick PRO and SD formats. Suggested retail prices and availability are as follows:
Capacities US$ (ex. VAT) Availability
Ultra II CF 256MB - 2GB $49.99 - $249.99 44.00 - 245.00 Now
4GB $479.99 465.00 October
8GB $959.99 930.00 November
Ultra II MS PRO 256MB 1GB $74.99 - $249.99 73.00 259.00 Now
2GB 4GB $479.99 - $959.99 495.00 - 990.00 November
Ultra II SD 256MB 512MB $64.99 - $89.99 45.00 - 72.00 Now
1GB 2GB $119.99 - $239.99 119.00 - 239.00 November
SanDisk Ultra II cards are available at most of the 80,000 consumer electronics stores and other retail outlets where SanDisk products are sold worldwide.
SanDisk, the worlds largest supplier of flash memory data storage card products, designs, manufactures and markets industry-standard, solid-state data, digital imaging and audio storage products using its patented, high density flash memory and controller technology. SanDisk is based in Sunnyvale, CA.
The matters discussed in this news release contain forward looking statements that are subject to certain risks and uncertainties as described under the caption, Factors That May Affect Future Results in the companys annual report on Form 10-K-A and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The companies assume no obligation to update the information in this release.