ADDING MULTIMEDIA SanDisk Co-Founder & Retired CEO Receives United States’ Highest Honor for Scientific Achievement & Innov...
November 20 2014 - 6:12PM
Business Wire
Dr. Eli Harari Awarded National Medal of
Technology and Innovation by President Obama
SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), a global leader in flash
memory storage solutions, today announced that Dr. Eli Harari,
co-founder, and retired chairman and chief executive officer of
SanDisk, was awarded the National Medal of Technology and
Innovation by the National Science Foundation for his significant
contributions towards the development and proliferation of flash
memory.
In a ceremony held at the White House
today, U.S. President Barack Obama presented Dr. Eli Harari,
co-founder, and retired chairman and chief executive officer of
SanDisk, with the National Medal of Technology and Innovation from
the National Science Foundation. The medal, which is the United
States' highest honor for scientific and technological achievement,
was awarded to Harari "for invention and commercialization of flash
storage technology to enable ubiquitous data in consumer
electronics, mobile computing, and enterprise storage." Photo
Credit: Ryan K Morris and the National Science and Technology
Medals Foundation
The award represents the nation’s highest honor for advancing
science and technology by recognizing those who have made lasting
contributions that have created a greater understanding of the
world and improved the lives of many. U.S. President Barack Obama
conferred the medal at a ceremony held today at the White House,
which was attended by leading dignitaries and other medal
laureates.
Dr. Harari co-founded SanDisk more that 25 years ago with the
vision of using flash memory to store data in mobile products.
Flash memory – an ideal storage medium due to its small size,
ruggedness and low power consumption – has since become ubiquitous
in mobile devices, and is now found in digital cameras,
smartphones, tablets, thin-and-light laptops and other portable
products. Flash memory is also increasingly transforming
datacenters, enabling them to accelerate the processing and
analysis of vast and growing amounts of data, thereby helping to
make social media, online media-streaming, real-time business
analytics and other industries both possible and feasible.
“I am proud to congratulate my fellow SanDisk co-founder and
friend, Eli, on this tremendous achievement,” said Sanjay Mehrotra,
co-founder, president and chief executive officer of SanDisk. “The
flash memory technologies he helped to pioneer have had a profound
impact on the entire technology landscape, firmly establishing
SanDisk as a global leader and connecting us in ways we never
thought possible. His lifelong intellectual and technical
achievements are well-deserving of the National Medal of Technology
and Innovation.”
“Dr. Harari’s pioneering work both as engineer and co-founder of
SanDisk was fundamental to establishing the practicality,
reliability, manufacturability and endurance of flash memory, which
today is widely considered to be one of the most important core
technologies in the technology industry,” said Tim Bajarin, founder
and president, Creative Strategies. “Flash memory has enabled many
companies such as Apple and others to offer breakthrough products
that have changed the lives of people around the world. For many
enterprise companies, their data is their business and flash memory
can help companies such as Google, Facebook, Alibaba, Amazon and
many others to access and analyze this massive amount of data.”
Throughout the years, SanDisk has garnered the reputation as one
of the most trusted brands for its innovations such as:
- Shipping the world’s first flash-based
SSD in 1991;
- Revolutionizing the flash memory market
in 1997 with multi-level cell (MLC) technology, doubling the
density of each memory die to dramatically reduce cost;
- Introducing the SD™ card format in 1998
in partnership with Toshiba and Panasonic; and
- Developing the world’s smallest NAND
flash chip in 2012, which can store 128 billion individual bits of
information on an area the size of a U.S. penny.
Fueled by the company’s vertical integration and strategic
acquisitions of companies like FlashSoft, Schooner Information
Technology, Pliant Technology, SMART Technologies, and Fusion-io,
SanDisk has in recent years focused on transforming the enterprise
market with flash memory technology. SanDisk, which today offers
the broadest flash memory solution portfolio for the enterprise, is
paving the way for faster data processing, enabling better business
intelligence, reducing the datacenter footprint, and continuing to
bring their customers high-quality reliable solutions.
About SanDisk
SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), a Fortune 500 and S&P
500 company, is a global leader in flash storage solutions. For
more than 25 years, SanDisk has expanded the possibilities of
storage, providing trusted and innovative products that have
transformed the electronics industry. Today, SanDisk’s quality,
state-of-the-art solutions are at the heart of many of the world's
largest data centers, and embedded in advanced smartphones, tablets
and PCs. SanDisk’s consumer products are available at hundreds of
thousands of retail stores worldwide. For more information, visit
www.sandisk.com.
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trademark of SanDisk Corporation, registered in the United States
and other countries. The SD mark is a trademark of SD-3C, LLC.
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