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The company's principal activity is the manufacturing of electronic parts and components such as television and radio receivers, sound or video recording or reproducing apparatuses, and related goods. It also operates service centers, provides financial services and sells mobile phones. Its main products include telecommunication equipment, dram, strategic foundry, imaging solutions, flash, sram, display drive IC, microcontrollers and fusion memory. Other products include ASIC, media/storage and mobile SoC, camera, DVR, monitor, optical fibers, interconnection products, fiber optic cables, LCD TV, notebook PC, DID, mobile phones, digital video recorder, digital cable, terrestrial and satellite receiver, combo and DVD-RW drive, recipro and rotary compressor. The company was founded in 1938.</sdc:value></sdc:g_business1><sdc:h_SEQ><sdc:value sdc:p="0">1.00000</sdc:value><sdc:value sdc:p="1">2.00000</sdc:value><sdc:value sdc:p="2">3.00000</sdc:value><sdc:value sdc:p="3">4.00000</sdc:value><sdc:value sdc:p="4">5.00000</sdc:value><sdc:value sdc:p="5">6.00000</sdc:value><sdc:value sdc:p="6">7.00000</sdc:value><sdc:value sdc:p="7">8.00000</sdc:value></sdc:h_SEQ><sdc:h_TEST><sdc:value sdc:p="0">SanDisk Corp, located in</sdc:value><sdc:value sdc:p="1">Milpitas, California,</sdc:value><sdc:value sdc:p="2">manufactures, designs and</sdc:value><sdc:value sdc:p="3">wholesales flash storage card</sdc:value><sdc:value sdc:p="4">products for a wide variety of</sdc:value><sdc:value sdc:p="5">electronic systems and digital</sdc:value><sdc:value sdc:p="6">devices. 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Standard&amp;Poor's also revised the outlook to negative from stable. Deceleration in the rate of demand growth and increasing fab output resulted in inventory buildup, negative operating income, and negative discretionary cash flow for the June quarter. Adverse market conditions and excess inventory are expected to continue in the September quarter. 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