SanDisk announced the opening of <A HREF="http://www.sandisk.com/Corporate/PressRoom/PressReleases/PressRelease.aspx?ID=3290">SanDisk India Device Design Center</A> Pvt. Ltd. in the country's technology hub of Bangalore, where engineers will work on the core elements of the company's flash memory products. The announcement was made at a press conference in Bangalore that was attended by Sanjay Mehrotra, SanDisk chief operating officer, and other company officials. The SanDisk India Design Center will initially concentrate on projects involving NAND memory--the heart of SanDisk's flash memory cards, USB drives and MP3 players. Later, the team will be expanded to include development work on ASIC controllers, which are the gatekeepers for data in flash memory cells.