Tributes flow as Creative CEO Sim Wong Hoo - the mind behind Sound Blaster - passes aged 68
Singapore's tech community is in mourning – along with many around the world – after the sudden passing of Creative Technology co-founder and CEO Sim Wong Hoo. The brand was behind the popular"Sound Blaster" range of PC sound cards and a significant force in theThe company started as a manufacturer of memory modules for the IBM PC, before expanding into sound cards for PCs in the late 1980s.
The success of the products saw Creative Technology become the first Singaporean entity to list on the tech-centric NASDAQ stock exchange – a feat it achieved in 1992. While sound support eventually became a feature baked into all PCs, Creative Technology continued to innovate and was one of the vendors that pushed MP3 players into the mainstream – and by doing so kick-started the digital media revolution. Creative still sells music players today under the Zen brand.[PDF] described his passing as"sad and sudden" but also peaceful.
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