SanDisk Extreme III 16-Gigabyte CompactFlash Card Wins Editor�s Choice Award from American Photo Magazine

NEW YORK, N.Y., Oct. 18, 2007 � SanDisk^� Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK) today announced that the SanDisk 16-gigabyte¹ Extreme^� III CompactFlash^� card has won an Editor�s Choice Award from American Photo magazine. This is one of the photographic publishing industry�s most authoritative honors, with judging criteria based on quality and performance. The announcement was made during PhotoPlus 2007 International Conference & Expo, where SanDisk is exhibiting through Saturday in the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center.

�Each year, the editors of American PHOTO select from hundreds of new products for photographers,� said Richard Rabinowitz, publisher of American Photo. �Only a handful of products pass the key selection requirement that it make a significant improvement in the lives and workflow of photographers who will use these products.�

In explaining the products selected, the magazine wrote of the SanDisk Extreme III 16GB card: �Unlike competitors, it�s a tough-as-nails professional version with �extreme� temperature and shock specifications identical to its 8GB predecessor � and despite its doubled capacity, no reduction in the previous 20MB/second data transfer speed.�

�Winning an Editor�s Choice award is immensely satisfying,� said Tanya Chuang, SanDisk�s director of retail product marketing for global imaging. �We believe that the speed and performance of the SanDisk Extreme III card are second to none and we are pleased to have this confirmed by such a highly-regarded publication. Earning this award is a testament to the commitment and dedication we have made to our customers to offer the best possible storage card products for digital photographers worldwide.�

The SanDisk Extreme III 16-gigabyte card is ideal for professional photographers who shoot RAW or high-resolution JPG files and need the performance, reliability and capacity to capture these large files. The SanDisk Extreme III CompactFlash cards can also be used with the Grass Valley� Infinity Series Digital Media Camcorder, the first camcorder introduced in the broadcast industry that uses non-proprietary, removable, solid-state flash memory cards as recording and playback media. The card has minimum write and read speeds of 20 megabytes per second (MB/sec.) ²

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, California, and has operations worldwide, with more than half its sales outside the U.S.

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