The tech pioneer behind Sound Blaster has handed away


Singaporean inventor and tech pioneer Sim Wong Hoo handed away on January 4th on the age of 67. Sim is probably not a family identify lately, however he based Creative Technology (or Creative Labs within the US), the corporate behind the Sound Blaster model of sound playing cards, again in 1981. Sound Blasters have been a few of the first sound playing cards accessible to shoppers, and there was a time while you had to ensure your system labored with them when you needed to take heed to music and play video games.

Sim established his enterprise within the US and began promoting Sound Blasters just a few years later, after which Creative turned the primary Singaporean firm to be listed on the Nasdaq change. The integration of sound boards into the motherboard ended Sound Blaster's reputation, however Bloomberg says the playing cards supplied audio for greater than 400 million PCs. 

Under his management, Creative additionally launched a spread of MP3 gamers, and Sim as soon as tried to tackle Apple by spending $100 million on promoting and advertising and marketing in its bid…

2023-01-07 10:12:58
Source from www.engadget.com

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