SanDisk 2008 Annual Report Download - page 12

Our Products. Our products are sold under the SanDisk brand in a wide variety of form factors and include
the following:
•Removable Cards. Our removable data storage solutions are available in almost every major form
factor in our primary markets. For example, our CompactFlash removable cards, available in capacities
up to 32 gigabytes, are well-suited for a range of consumer applications, including digital cameras. Our
professional products include the SanDisk Ultra®and SanDisk Extreme®product lines which are
designed with additional performance and reliability. Our ultra-small microSD removable cards,
available in capacities up to 16 gigabytes, are designed for use in mobile phones.
•USB Drives. Our Cruzer®line of USB Flash Drives, or UFDs, are used in the computing and consumer
markets, are available in capacities up to 16 gigabytes, are highly-reliable and are designed for high-
performance. Our Cruzer products provide the user with the ability to carry files and application
software on a portable USB drive. Also, our Cruzer Crossfire UFDs are specially designed to make the
console or PC gaming experience portable. Our Professional and Enterprise line of UFDs are geared
towards the corporate user and are specifically designed to support secure and authorized access to
corporate information.
•Embedded and Semi-Removable Products. Our embedded products are a set of reliable, high-capacity,
high performance and cost-effective embedded flash memory drive solutions for both data and code
storage. Our iNAND™embedded flash product line, with capacities up to 16 gigabytes, are designed to
respond to the increasing demand for embedded storage for mobile phones and other portable devices.
We also offer high-capacity SSDs targeted for the personal computing and network server markets in
capacities up to 64 gigabytes.
•Digital Media Players. Sansa is our branded line of flash-based digital media players for the digital
audio and video player market. Many of our Sansa models offer a removable card slot for easy
transportability of music between devices and storage capacity expansion. Features within our Sansa
line of products include FM radio, voice recording and support for a variety of audio and video music
download and subscription services. Sansa media players are available in capacities up to 32 gigabytes.
We recently launched our slotMusic™and slotRadio™products that greatly simplify music content
availability for consumers.
Technology. Since our inception, we have focused our research, development and standardization efforts on
developing highly reliable, high-performance, cost-effective flash memory storage products in small form factors
to address a variety of emerging markets. We have been actively involved in all aspects of this development,
including flash memory process development, module integration, chip design, controller development and
system-level integration, to help ensure the creation of fully-integrated, broadly interoperable products that are
compatible with both existing and newly developed system platforms. We developed and commercialized 2-bits/
cell flash MLC, or X2, and more recently 3-bits/cell flash MLC, or X3, technology. We are also investing in the
development of 4-bits/cell flash MLC, or X4, storage technologies. In addition, we are investing in the
development of three-dimensional, or 3D, memory architecture with multiple read-write capabilities. We have
also initiated, defined and developed standards to meet new market needs and to promote wide acceptance of
these standards through interoperability and ease-of-use. We believe our core technical competencies are in:
• high-density flash memory process, module integration, device design and reliability;
• securing data on a flash memory device;
• controller design;
• system-level integration;
• compact packaging; and
• low-cost system testing.
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