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Blaster achieved competitive control of the PC audio market by 1992, the same year that its main competitor, Ad Lib, Inc., went bankrupt. In the mid-1990s, following the launch of the Sound Blaster 16 and related products, Creative Technologies' audio revenue grew from US$ 40 million to nearly
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At the same time, Esber and the original founders of the company had differences of opinion on the strategy and positioning of the company. Esber exited in 1995, followed quickly by
Buchanan and Pomerantz. Following Esber's departure, Sorkin was promoted to General Manager of Audio and Communication
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Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas in January 2018, its Super X-Fi dongle won the Best of CES 2018 Award by AVS Forum. The product was launched after more than $ 100 million in investment and garnered positive analyst reports. This new technology renewed interest in the company and
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was among the first dedicated audio processing cards to be made widely available to the general consumer. As the first to bundle what is now considered to be a part of a sound card system: digital audio, on-board music synthesizer, MIDI interface and a joystick port, Sound
Blaster rose to become a
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Stillwater, Oklahoma, US laid off several technical support staff, furthering ongoing concerns surrounding Creative's financial situation. Later that year, the company faced a public-relations backlash when it demanded that a user
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Creative Labs as CEO to assemble a management team to support the company's rapid growth. Esber brought in a team of US executives, including Rich Buchanan (graphics), Gail Pomerantz (marketing), and Rich Sorkin (sound products, and later communications, OEM and business development). This
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chip found on the AdLib card, as well as adding a component for playing and recording digital samples. Creative aggressively marketed the "stereo" aspect of the Sound
Blaster (only the C/MS chips were capable of stereo, not the complete product) to calling the sound producing micro-controller a
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on 5 January 2001 and was awarded the patent on 9 August 2005. The Zen patent was awarded to the firm for the invention of user interface for portable media players. This opened the way for potential legal action against Apple's iPod and the other competing players. The firm took legal actions
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AU8820 Vortex 3D sound technology. The firm at the time was in development of their own in house PCI audio cards but were finding little success adopting the PCI standard. In
January 1998 in order to quickly facilitate a working PCI audio technology, the firm made the acquisition of
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and Extigy soundcards were marketed. The firm offered customers who purchased the cards up to a $ 62.50 reduction on the cost of their next purchase of its products, while the lawyers involved in filing the dispute against
Creative received a payment of approximately $ 470,000.
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at the high end and Aztech at the low end. Sorkin, in particular, dramatically strengthened the company's brand position through crisp licensing and an aggressive defense of
Creative's intellectual property positions while working to shorten product development cycles.
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and featuring multimedia features like enhanced color graphics and a built-in audio board capable of producing speech and melodies. With lack of demand for multilingual computers and few multimedia software applications available, the Cubic was a commercial failure.
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and media streaming, Creative was well-positioned to take advantage of the Internet era, but ventured into the CD-ROM market and was eventually forced to write off nearly US$ 100 million in inventory when the market collapsed due to a flood of cheaper alternatives.
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The sixth generation of Sound Blaster sound cards introduced SBX Pro Studio, a feature that restores the highs and lows of compressed audio files, enhancing detail and clarity. SBX Pro Studio also offers user settings for controlling bass and virtual surround.
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named "Daniel_K" cease distributing modified versions of drivers for Windows Vista which restored functionality that had been available in drivers for Windows XP. The company deleted his account from its online forums but reinstated it a week later.
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The audio and video engine of the X-Fi Sonic Carrier are powered by 7 processors with a total of 14 cores. It supports both local and streaming video content at up to 4K 60 fps, as well as 15.2 channels of high resolution audio playback.
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against Apple in May 2006. In August, 2006, Creative and Apple entered into a broad settlement, with Apple paying Creative $ 100 million for the licence to use the Zen patent. The firm then joined the "Made for iPod" program.
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for Intel to license technology and patents from ZiiLABS Inc. Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Creative, and acquire engineering resources and assets related to its UK branch as a part of a $ 50 million deal.
662:(still wholly owned by Creative) continues to retain all ownership of its StemCell media processor technologies and patents, and will continue to supply and support its ZMS series of chips to its customers.
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bus in order to compete with upcoming Aureal AU8830 Vortex2 sound chip. Aureal at this time were making fliers comparing their new AU8830 chips to the now shipping
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Shifting focus from language to music, Creative developed the Creative Music System, a PC add-on card. Sim established Creative Labs, Inc. in the United States'
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card and technologies; the company continues to develop Sound Blaster products including embedding it with partnered mainboard manufacturers and laptops.
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with intent to slow down Aureals sales, and acted fraudulently. The suit had come only days after Aureal gained a fair market with the AU8820 Vortex1.
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surround processing, and also features Creative's EAX 15.2 Dimensional Audio to extract, enhance and upscale sound from legacy material.
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Products and later Executive Vice-President of Business Development and Corporate Investments, before leaving Creative in 1996 to run
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for US$ 77 million. On 5 March 1998 the firm sued Aureal with patent infringement claims over a MIDI caching technology held by
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1641:"Creative's Zii 'Stemcell Computing' is not likely to be awesome"
1452:"A Steve Jobs Rival Who Hit Hard Times Makes Remarkable Comeback"
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entered the soundcard market with their very competitive
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and Creative's Personal Digital Entertainment division.
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Chalk, Andy; published, Jacob Ridley (5 January 2023).
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Jason Dedrick; Kenneth L. Kraemer (20 August 1998).
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1789:"Creative Technology Ltd history"
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938:Cambridge SoundWorks
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906:Aureal Semiconductor
812:Creative T4 speakers
607:class action lawsuit
520:In August 1998, the
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393:Ngee Ann Polytechnic
290:Cambridge SoundWorks
192:Consumer electronics
93:Consumer electronics
55:Milpitas, California
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1986:Creative Technology
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1929:"Creative Does DVD"
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1198:"Creative's Genius"
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538:Sound Blaster Live!
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