SanDisk Marks the Opening of its First Production Plant in China
(Business News, 28 Sep 2007 )
SanDisk Corp. has opened its production facility in Shanghai, the company's first in mainland China. Based in Zizhu Industrial-based Science Park, SanDisk Semiconductor (Shanghai) Co. Ltd (SDSS) is expected to play a critical role in SanDisk's worldwide operations as the plant will focus on the assembly and test of its advanced flash memory products for mobile and other consumers in markets worldwide. SanDisk's worldwide operations function will also reside at the Shanghai facility.
The new SanDisk manufacturing plant produces a flash memory-based chip package called System-in-a-Package (SiP), which is particularly valuable in mobile phones where there is limited space due to their small size.
The new 34,000-square-meter facility is a vertically integrated production operation with all test and assembly processes carried out at the plant—from receiving wafers from the company's fabrication sources, or fabs, based in Japan to shipping complete products to customers. The production capacity of SDSS is expected to meet approximately 30 percent of SanDisk's SiP products projected global demand.
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, Calif., and has operations worldwide, with more than half its sales outside the U.S.
