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One of very few Singaporean semi companies which made it. The only one I would list second to it would be Espressif, which makes ESP8266 and ESP32. I lived in Singapore as a student 2007-2009.
I thought Espressif is Chinese? Their company history seems to indicate that they were founded in Shanghai: https://www.espressif.com/en/company/about-us/milestones
Creative Labs also made one of the strangest keyboard keyboard (not a typo) contraptions, the Prodikeys[0] [0] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Creative+Labs+ProdiKeys&t=h_&iax=i...
Creative Labs also made one of the strangest keyboard keyboard (not a typo) contraptions, the Prodikeys[0] [0] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Creative+Labs+ProdiKeys&t=h_&iax=i...
In action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h73kd6wsBq0
Known in the US as Creative Labs. Mercy, those Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live PCI cards (CT4830) were like the default go-to option for everyone for years & years. Every system build got one! They were reasonably priced & considered pretty decent! Motherboards had pretty bad onboard sound if any at all, up until an Nvidia chipset started sometimes having some good implementations (the nForce chipset with integrated…
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> losing repeatedly > bankruptcy due to legal fees. Don't the legal fees get paid by the losing side?
In the American legal system, each party pays its own legal fees unless there is (1) a statute that specifies fee-shifting or (2) a contract between the parties that specifies fee-shifting. The reasoning behind this is that to require the loser to pay all fees would discourage "good" lawsuits. (e.g., an individual with a decent case against a big company, may be discouraged from filing because of the potentially cata…
I know this isn't your idea @bdowling, and it's actually interesting to hear the reason, but I couldn't resist /s posting.
Practically every computer geek/nerd of the 80s and 90s has come across and used a Sound Blaster at some point. Part of our childhoods, as the saying goes. RIP, not many get to affect quite as many people as Creative did across entire generations.
It wasn't just sound. The second generation SoundBlasters had a proprietary CD-ROM controller integrated, this was not yet standardized, it was before the IDE CD-ROM. It was the birth of the CD-ROM, and of Multimedia itself, as a product. In the early 90's we used to buy a boxed "Multimedia Kit" from Creative, with SoundBlaster, CD-ROM drive and speakers. Very popular and the best way to "add multimedia" to your comp…
And then after installing everything you open to this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxNsIBJOAA8
Absolutely magical to eleven-year old me. Too bad I couldn't read English very well yet, since in the Netherlands they only started teaching that around the same age at the time.
Practically every computer geek/nerd of the 80s and 90s has come across and used a Sound Blaster at some point. Part of our childhoods, as the saying goes. RIP, not many get to affect quite as many people as Creative did across entire generations.
Not my image, but I have the same one: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/pcb-notebook--5410653427112781...
a full year before the iPod, I remember getting the Creative Nomad Jukebox ( https://www.iretron.com/blog/posts/technology-flashback-crea... ) with its whopping 6GB of space and showing it off at school. it had a great display and the icons on the physical buttons were worn off from me pressing them. more importantly as a kid from a tiny country, Mr. Sim and Creative Technologies showed promise that you could make an…
RIP Mr. Sim and thanks for inspiring us Singaporeans to dream bigger.
I will remember Creative as the company that purchased two of the greatest music synthesizer companies, E-Mu and Ensoniq, merged them, and then destroyed them.
This. Creative had scale and ability to reduce costs for both E-MU and Ensoniq. These companies had extensive silicon design and fab experience (Dave Rossum is still at it in fact) that could have been leveraged and some truly innovative products could have been made. Still computer software was rapidly eating the Audio hardware market and things like samplers started to seem both redundant and one and the same thing…