SanDisk Corporation experienced severe downward pressure and heightened intraday volatility as a powerful profit-taking rotation swept through the technology sector. After establishing itself as one of the premier performers of the year with a massive year-to-date rally from its fifty-two-week low, the stock faced a classic momentum unwind. Large-scale institutional investors began aggressively rebalancing their portfolios, shifting capital out of high-flying artificial intelligence hardware and memory chip stocks and redeploying it into AI software equities. This rotation triggered a synchronized selloff across the entire memory complex, dragging down SanDisk alongside other major storage and semiconductor peers.

The primary catalyst…