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CnMemory, Dane-Elec Memory, or Dane-Elec, Eastman Kodak Company, or Kodak, Elecom Co., Ltd., or
Elecom, FUJIFILM Corporation, or FUJI, Gemalto N.V., or Gemalto, Hagiwara Sys-Com Co., Ltd., or
Hagiwara, Hama GmbH & Co. KG, or Hama, Hynix, Imation Corporation, or Imation, and its division Memorex
Products, Inc., or Memorex, I-O Data Device, Inc., or I-O Data, Kingmax Digital, Inc., or Kingmax, Kingston
Technology Company, Inc., or Kingston, Lexar, Micron, Netac Technology Co., Ltd., or Netac, Panasonic, PNY
Technologies, Inc., or PNY, Power Quotient International Co., Ltd., or PQI, RITEK Corporation, or RITEK,
Samsung, Sony, STMicroelectronics N.V., or STMicroelectronics, Toshiba, Transcend Information, Inc., or
Transcend, and Verbatim Americas LLC, or Verbatim.
Solid-State Drive and Hard Disk Drive Manufacturers. Our SSDs face competition from other
manufacturers of SSDs, including Intel, Kingston, Micron, Samsung, STEC, Inc., or STEC, Toshiba, and others
such as OCZ Technology Group, Inc. Our SSDs also face competition from hard disk drives, which are offered
by companies including, among others, Seagate Technology LLC, or Seagate, Samsung and Western Digital
Corporation, or Western Digital.
Digital Audio/Video Player Manufacturers. Our digital audio/video players face strong competition from
products offered by companies, including Apple Inc., or Apple, ARCHOS Technology, or ARCHOS, Coby
Electronics Corporation, or Coby, Creative Technology Ltd., or Creative, Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.,
or Royal Philips Electronics, Microsoft Corporation, or Microsoft, Samsung and Sony.
Other Technologies. Other technologies compete with our product offerings and many companies are
attempting to develop memory cells that use different designs and materials in order to reduce memory costs.
These potential competitive technologies include several types of 3D memory, a version of which we are jointly
developing with Toshiba, phase-change, ReRAM, vertical or stacked NAND and charge-trap flash technologies.
Additional Information
We file reports and other information with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, including
annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K and proxy or
information statements. Those reports and statements and all amendments to those documents filed or furnished
pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act (1) may be read and copied at the SEC’s Public
Reference Room at 100 F Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20549, (2) are available at the SEC’s internet site
(http://www.sec.gov), which contains reports, proxy and information statements and other information regarding
issuers that file electronically with the SEC and (3) are available free of charge through our website as soon as
reasonably practicable after electronic filing with, or furnishing to, the SEC. Information regarding the operation
of the SEC’s Public Reference Room may be obtained by calling the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330. Our website
address is www.sandisk.com. Information on our website is not incorporated by reference nor otherwise included
in this report. Our principal executive offices are located at 601 McCarthy Blvd., Milpitas, CA 95035, and our
telephone number is [phone]. SanDisk is a trademark of SanDisk Corporation, and is registered in the
U.S. and other countries. Other brand names mentioned herein are for identification purposes only and may be
the trademarks of their respective holder(s).
We have a corporate governance webpage. You can access information about SanDisk’s corporate
governance at http://investor.sandisk.com by clicking on the “Corporate Governance” link found along the left
pane of the webpage. We also have a corporate social responsibility, or CSR, webpage. You can access
information about SanDisk’s CSR policies and initiatives at http://www.sandisk.com/about-sandisk/corporate-
social-responsibility.
Employees
As of January 3, 2010, we had 3,267 full-time employees, including 1,236 in research and development, 443
in sales and marketing, 398 in general and administration, and 1,190 in operations. None of our employees are
represented by a collective bargaining agreement and we have never experienced any work stoppage. We believe
that our employee relations are satisfactory.
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