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сен 3, 2001

Company Selects Damkalidia To Distribute Retail Card Products

ATHENS, GREECE, Sept. 4, 2001 - SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK) has opened retail sales in Greece and today named D & J Damkalidis S.A. as its retail distributor in that country. The announcement was made at a SanDisk press conference in Athens.

Damkalidis, headquartered in Athens, is a leading trading company in Greece that imports, promotes and exclusively distributes several well-known electronic and non-electronic products. Damkalidis, which represents Nikon, Polaroid and Varta in Greece, distributes digital cameras, scanners, digital imaging software, printers and batteries and directly supplies 3,000 retail outlets and 80 wholesalers.

Gerrit Van Hofwegen, SanDisk's EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) sales manager, said, "With its considerable experience, especially in the imaging market, Damkalidis will be a genuine asset to SanDisk. We believe that Damkalidis is the best company in Greece to market our flash memory cards and card readers to retailers selling digital cameras, handheld computers, MP3 players and the growing number of other electronic devices that use our cards. The coming of the Olympic Games to Greece is expected to accelerate the sales of SanDisk flash card product there."

SanDisk Corporation, the world's largest supplier of flash data storage products, designs, manufactures and markets industry-standard, solid-state data, digital imaging and audio storage products using its patented, high density flash memory and controller technology. SanDisk is based in Sunnyvale, CA.

The matters discussed in this news release contain forward looking statements that are subject to certain risks and uncertainties as described under the caption, "Factors That May Affect Future Results" in the company's annual report on Form 10-K and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The companies assume no obligation to update the information in this release.