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• Samsung renews chip licence with SanDisk

  Strategy Eye - 2009-05-26

  Korean device manufacturer Samsung has extended its existing chip licence agreement with US storage specialist SanDisk for another seven years. The extension is set at a lower royalty rate than previously and Samsung is committed to shipping a certain amount of its chips to SanDisk. Samsung pays around USD350m...

  Tags: SanDisk Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Agreement, Chip, Flash Memory, SAMSUNG, Thomas Warren

• Report: Mobile Content Explosion Makes Memory Cards A Big Money-Maker

  Content Next - 2008-12-16

  With more content being created and consumed on mobile phones, an interesting phenomenon has occurred: memory cards have quickly become the biggest money maker in accessory sales, research firm ABI Research reports. It isn't surprising that consumers are scrambling for more storage since many cellphones these days come with...

  Tags: Phone, Memory Card, Mobile, ABI Research, Sales Strategy, Flash Memory, Memory, Storage, Telecom & Utilities, Sales, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Entertainment, Research & Metrics, Social Media, Matt Kapko, SanDisk Corp.

• Veoh partners with SanDisk on video downloads

  Strategy Eye - 2008-11-13

  Veoh is partnering with SanDisk to allow users to download content from the video-streaming site direct to SanDisk USB devices. Web Player for SanDisk, which will initially roll out on SanDisk's Cruzer-branded flash drives, will let users watch saved videos offline on any PC. The launch builds on the...

  Tags: SanDisk Corp., Video, Video Download, Veoh, Flash Memory, Andrew McDonald, SanDisk

• SanDisk: The Jerry Yang School of Investor Relations?

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-10-22

  Eric Savitz (Barron's) submits: SanDisk SNDK shares are sharply lower this morning after Samsung withdrew its offer to acquire the company. In a letter to SanDisk disclosed late yesterday, Samsung Electronics CEO Yoon Woo Lee said he is “disappointed” that the two companies could not reach an agreement....

  Tags: Jerry Yang, SanDisk Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Investor Relations, Seeking Alpha, Flash Memory, Eric Savitz, Chip

• Tech Roundup: Yahoo Ails, Time Warner Limits, Free Netbooks, More

  BNET - 2008-10-22

  Yahoo manages its business and stock price to a five year low; Time Warner experiments with limiting monthly traffic for consumer customers in Texas, IBM tries a consumer-type price inducement for low-end mainframes; several telecom wireless carriers are giving away netbooks; and Samsung drops its bid for SanDisk, possibly as...

  Tags: Time Warner Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Mainframes, Productivity, Investment, Telephony, Flash Memory, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Servers, Hardware, Finance, Networking, Erik Sherman, SanDisk Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

• Toshiba to Buy 30 Percent Stake in SanDisk

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-10-21

  Ron Haruni submits: On Monday, SanDisk SNDK, the world’s top supplier of flash data storage card products said that it has entered into a non-binding memorandum of understanding with Toshiba Corp. to sell approx. 30% of the current NAND fab capacity of the parties’ joint ventures to Toshiba. ...

  Tags: SanDisk Corp., NAND, Toshiba Corp., Seeking Alpha, Ron Haruni, Flash Memory, Storage Management, Storage, Hardware, Chip

• SanDisk Earnings Review: 'Ugliest Quarter Ever'

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-10-21

  Avi Cohen submits: SanDisk SNDK reported revenue of 822MM (+1% Q/Q), above consensus expectations but non-GAAP per share loss of $(0.59) was worse. The wider losses were due to non-GAAP product GM of -17.5%, well below consensus and even worse than our Street low estimate of negative...

  Tags: SanDisk Corp., Estimate, non-GAAP, Earnings, General Motors Corp., Seeking Alpha, Avi Cohen, GAAP, Research & Development, Flash Memory, Financial Accounting, Finance, Business Operations, Gadgets

• Earnings Preview: SanDisk

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-10-20

  SanDisk SNDK is expected to report Q3 earnings Monday Oct. 20 with a conference call scheduled for 5:00 pm ET. Guidance The consensus estimate is loss (27c) for EPS and $778.12M for revenue, according to First Call. Guidance was materially lowered for Q3 revenues on the earnings call to $750M...

  Tags: SanDisk Corp., Earnings, Seeking Alpha, Financial Accounting, Flash Memory, Finance, theflyonthewall.com, Chip

• SanDisk: Despite Completing Sale to Toshiba, Still Causing Anxiety

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-10-20

  Flash memory chip maker SanDisk SNDK, which is expected to report earnings after the bell today, announced this morning it will sell 30% of the manufacturing capacity at its NAND flash chip making joint venture to its partner in that venture, Toshiba (TSHTF.PK). “The move will significantly reduce SanDisk’s capital...

  Tags: SanDisk Corp., Toshiba Corp., Seeking Alpha, Flash Memory, Tiernan Ray, Chip

• SanDisk's slotMusic Enters the Ring

  BNET - 2008-09-22

  Today SanDisk made a decidedly old-school announcement: a new medium for music. Yes, that's medium as in "tangible product that you buy at the store." The initiative, called slotMusic, will put complete albums on microSD cards, the cell-phone memory cards that are about half the size of a postage stamp....

  Tags: Card, SanDisk Corp., MicroSD, Music, Flash Memory, Karen Steen