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SanDisk opens its first production facility in China। Its worldwide operations function will also reside at the Shanghai facility.
Monday, October 01, 2007: SanDisk Corporation has started its production facility in Shanghai, the company’s first in the People’s Republic of China. Based out of 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.

Juha Raisanen, senior vice president, SanDisk, will be responsible for managing end-to-end supply chain and overseeing SanDisk’s worldwide back-end manufacturing operations organisation. His office will be located at the Shanghai facility. CK Lin has been appointed as general manager of the SDSS factory.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.“Shanghai is a strategic location that is close to our supply partners and allows us to stay ahead of the curve as we seek to bring our products to market faster,” said Sanjay Mehrotra, president and CEO, SanDisk. “We believe our new state-of-the-art facility will help us meet the growing demand for storage cards as consumers increasingly use their mobile phones to view photos, listen to music as well as record and play videos.” The new 34,000 sq. metre 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 per cent of SanDisk’s SiP products projected global demand.According to Randhir Thakur, executive vice president, technology and worldwide operations, SanDisk, “The new facility will produce some of SanDisk’s most technically sophisticated flash memory products, such as the 4 and 8 memory-die stacks required in high-capacity microSD, SDHC and Memory Stick Micro (M2) cards for mobile devices, with plans to set up a locally based development team for new products. The selection of Zizhu Science Park for our plant location gives us an advantage in recruiting the wealth of talent from neighbouring leading universities — Jiaotong University