Press Releases

Jun 27, 2007

Worldwide Launch of Highest Capacity 4GB M2 Card for Use with Digital Cameras, Hand-held Game Players and Sony Ericsson Mobile Phones

MILPITAS, CALIFORNIA, June 27, 2007 -  SanDisk®Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK) today announced the availability of the 4-gigabyte(GB)¹ Memory Stick Micro™ (M2) card. With the capacity to hold up to 1,000 MP3 songs, 9,600 high-resolution photos or up to 20 hours of MPEG4 video², the 4GB M2 is compatible with Sony Ericsson's latest generation of slim line, multimedia mobile handsets such as the Cyber-shot™ and Walkman® series.

"Music, video, photos, games-these are the types of content driving the need for higher capacity cards such as the 4GB M2," said Jeff Kost, vice president and general manager of the Mobile Consumer Solutions division at SanDisk. "This trend is expected to grow as consumers embrace the mobile lifestyle and demand more storage-intensive features from a single mobile device."

The M2 format was co-developed by SanDisk and Sony Corporation to meet the growing storage needs of highly compact, multimedia mobile phones. The M2 measures 0.59" long x 0.49" wide x 0.05" high, or 15mm x 12.5mm x 1.2mm, making it the second smallest flash memory media in the world, behind the microSD™ format, which SanDisk pioneered.

The SanDisk M2 card line is designed for use with mobile handsets that have an M2 slot as well as all Memory Stick PRO Duo™ slotted devices. When accompanied by the included Memory Stick PRO Duo adapter, M2 cards are fully backwards compatible with all digital cameras and hand-held game players such as the Sony PlayStation® Portable that have a Memory Stick PRO Duo slot.

The 4GB M2 card has a suggested retail price of $99.99. The new card is expected to be available worldwide this summer at many of the more than 210,000 consumer electronics stores and retail outlets where SanDisk products are sold.

SanDisk is the original inventor of flash storage cards and is the world's largest supplier of flash data storage card products, using its patented, high-density flash memory and controller technology. SanDisk is headquartered in Milpitas, California, and has operations worldwide, with more than half of its sales outside the U.S. 

¹ 1 gigabyte (GB) = 1 billion bytes.
² Approximations based on 4-minute songs at 128 kbps MP3 (music), 1-minute clips at 384kbps (video), and compressed JPEG images from a 2-megapixel camera (photos). Actual numbers may vary. 

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SanDisk and the SanDisk logo are trademarks of SanDisk Corporation, registered in the United States and other countries. microSD is a trademark. Memory Stick PRO Duo and Memory Stick micro are trademarks of Sony Corporation. All brand names mentioned herein are for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective holder(s).
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements, including expectations for new product introductions, specifications, applications, markets, pricing, product availability, customer acceptance and customers that are based on our current expectations and involve numerous risks and uncertainties that may cause these forward-looking statements to be inaccurate. Risks that may cause these forward-looking statements to be inaccurate include among others: market demand for our products may grow more slowly than our expectations, there may be a slower adoption rate for these products in new markets that we are targeting, our products may not be available at the prices, dates or in the geographies we anticipate, and the other risks detailed from time-to-time under the caption "Risk Factors" and elsewhere in our Securities and Exchange Commission filings and reports, including, but not limited to, Form 10-K and our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. We do not intend to update the information contained in this press release. 

MEDIA CONTACT:
SanDisk Corporation
Mike Wong
(408) 801-1240
mike.wong@sandisk.com