SanDisk Expands Product Line With New SmartMedia Flash Cards

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--June 21, 1999-- SanDisk Corporation announced today that it will act as a single source supplier of flash memory to the retail channel by adding the SmartMedia(TM) flash card form factor to broaden the range of products it offers retailers.

SanDisk is the only vendor to supply the retail channel with CompactFlash(TM) (CF(TM)), MultiMediaCard(TM), PC Card and SmartMedia, the most popular flash memory card formats. SanDisk, inventor of the industry leading CompactFlash memory card and developer of the flash MultiMediaCard, currently plans to offer the SmartMedia card only in the retail channel.