{"id":28709,"date":"2023-01-09T16:35:56","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T16:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2023\/01\/09\/creative-labs-founder-sim-wong-hoo-creator-of-the-sound-blaster-has-died\/"},"modified":"2023-01-09T16:35:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T16:35:56","slug":"creative-labs-founder-sim-wong-hoo-creator-of-the-sound-blaster-has-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2023\/01\/09\/creative-labs-founder-sim-wong-hoo-creator-of-the-sound-blaster-has-died\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Labs founder Sim Wong Hoo, creator of the Sound Blaster, has died"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Recap:<\/strong> Hoo founded Creative Technology (known as Creative Labs in the US) in mid-1981 but it wouldn’t be until near the end of the decade before the company’s dedicated audio processing card, the Sound Blaster, was released. The add-in card did virtually everything that the competing product from market leader AdLib did plus added additional features like a game port for less money. <\/p>\n

Creative Technology founder, chairman and CEO Sim Wong Hoo died last week, his company recently confirmed. He was 67.<\/p>\n

It didn’t take long before the Sound Blaster became the top-selling PC expansion card and a household name among computer enthusiasts and PC gamers. Creative dominated the sound card market throughout the 90s and into the early 2000s and became the de facto for quality audio on the PC before motherboard makers started integrating increasingly better quality onboard audio into their offerings, demoting discrete sound cards to niche category status.<\/p>\n