Mehrotra also speaks about the culture of paranoia he learned from his days at Intel.

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Mehrotra says the time demands of corporate leadership have been too intense in the past decade for him to continue doing much inventing.

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Sanjay Mehrotra, CEO of SanDisk, won more than 70 patents earlier in his career, before rising into top management at the maker of flash-memory devices.

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In the CEO job, he will be replaced by current president and COO Sanjay Mehrotra, the former Intel employee with whom he founded the company in 1988.

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Mehrotra declined to comment on the pressure on the stock.

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Rahul Mehrotra, chair of the department of urban planning and design at the Harvard Design School, has a team on site mapping and photographing the city that has sprung up here.

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Another area that should bear fruit in the next two years, says Mehrotra, is 3D flash technology, which yields denser, more robust chips by stacking memory cells and enabling further miniaturization of functionality.

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