Sandy will be included in the NASDAQ 100 Index, with its stock price rising more than 2600% in one year.

On the 10th local time after the U.S. stock market, the official website of the U.S. NASDAQ Stock Exchange announced that storage chip company SanDisk will replace a software company and be included in the NASDAQ 100 index. According to the announcement, SanDisk will officially become a component of the NASDAQ 100 index before the opening on April 20. The NASDAQ 100 index is composed of the top 100 non-financial companies listed on the NASDAQ Stock Exchange. Some market views believe that this component adjustment signifies that SanDisk's core position in the global data storage and semiconductor field has been recognized by the capital market, while also highlighting a strategic shift in market focus from software services to AI hardware infrastructure. SanDisk's stock price closed slightly up by 0.02% on Friday, and has accumulated a nearly 260% increase since the beginning of the year, with a growth rate of over 2600% in the past year.