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  With the price tag it carries, SanDisk is definitely not targeting the average consumer wanting to store content. In fact, these exorbitantly priced cards come with crazy speed, which SanDisk claims is apt for DSLR users. This 32GB SDHC card gives a read/write speed of up to 30MB/s, thus allowing the DSLR users to [...]

  SanDisk’s much touted X4 flash tech equipped memory cards are now shipping. The technology allows a memory card to hold 4-bits of data in each cell, twice as compared to a MLC based NAND memory chip. The X4 based cards are processed by 43nm technology with 64-gigabit NAND flash chip, making it the highest-density [...]

  SanDisk has introduced a new line of faster CompactFlash memory cards. Equipped with SanDisk’s Power Core Controller, the Extreme Pro CF cards are able to give read/write speeds of up to 90MB/s, effectively doubling the performance from the previous generation. In addition to faster speed, the SanDisk cards offer improved durability with an ability [...]

  SanDisk has got a new player in the market to keep its slotMusic card hopes alive. Previously, only Sansa slotMusic player was the only medium to enjoy SanDisk’s DRMed music but Sansa Clip+ also adds that integration in addition to the embedded internal storage. The Sansa Clip+ comes in capacities of 2/4/8GB and has [...]

  DSLR users will be able to snag SanDisk’s 32GB Extreme SDHC Card that promises to read and write at a speed of up to 30MB/s. SanDisk says this card will quickly process data, enabling DSLR users to take photographs in burst mode without worrying to miss a shot. The 32GB Extreme SDHC card adheres [...]

  Just in case your 64GB pSSD runs out of space, SanDisk is also offering an additional storage solution. The Netbook SDHC card goes into your netbook’s memory card reader to give you an extra 8 or 16GB of storage. Well, if you’re trying to figure out the difference between the netbook SDHC and a [...]

  SanDisk has started shipping its next-generation SSDs meant specially for netbooks. The pSSDs P2 and S2 integrate a new technology called nCache that helps to improve performance of the SSDs. nCache is a non-volatile write cache that supports burst performance and gives a vRPM (virtual Revolutions Per Minute) of up to 9,000. Though the [...]

  Samsung and SanDisk have announced their renewal of NAND flash memory license agreement. Though both the companies haven’t revealed the intrinsic agreement details, Samsung will have an upper hand as they’ll pay half the royalty amount that they pay currently. Samsung is the largest NAND flash memory maker and pays almost $350 million in [...]

  This is not the first time we have heard death sentences for Blu-ray format so we’re not surprised when SanDisk’s honcho is the latest one to say it. His reasoning is that because smartphones are the hot-selling mediums for watching videos, Blu-ray can’t really survive since the phones cannot benefit from it. Eli Harari [...]

  SanDisk and Toshiba have been collaborating for quite some time to develop flash technologies. The latest breakthrough by them are the 43nm X4 and 32nm X3 flash chips, currently showcased at the International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC). The 32nm 32Gb X3 flash chip is the smallest NAND flash in the industry and is [...]

  SanDisk doesn’t seem to have learnt a lesson from its slotMusic initiative. Now that slotMusic has taken a backseat (assuming weak sales), the new bold move comes in the form of slotRadio. The slotRatio line consists of a music player and a microSD card. If a user is willing to shell out $100, he’ll [...]

  SanDisk bumped up the storage capacity of its clip-on player, Sansa Clip to 8GB. This makes it the highest capacity clip-on player available in the market. The 8GB variant will now go for $100 while its smaller siblings will continue to sell for $40 (1GB), $60 (2GB) and $80 (4GB). Sansa Clip has a [...]

  Here’s a repetition of the Yahoo-Microsoft saga. Samsung officially announced their withdrawal of the hostile bid to buy SanDisk for the earlier price of $26 per share in cash. Samsung is obviously unhappy because the deal not going through and also more millions of dollars will be spent by them in the form of [...]

  CNET’s taken a video demonstrating the features of SanDisk’s new Sansa slotMusic player. It is a no-frills music player and according to CNET, it sits nicely between a Discman and today’s music players. SanDisk is not looking to make considerable profits with the player but it is the accessories where they can milk in [...]

  To complement the launch of slotMusic cards, the marketing wizards at SanDisk have come up with a music player dubbed as Sansa slotMusic player. In simple parlance, it is a no frills music player which relies on external storage (only microSD cards) for music. Pop-in a slotMusic card or microSD card up to 16GB [...]