Creative lab is a pioneer of the hardware manufacturers and Multimedia specialist in the Unterhaltungsindustrie with seat in Singapore.

Overview

The mark Creative lab is the US-American daughter of the enterprise Creative Technology Limited with seat in Singapore, which by Sim Wong Hoo on 1 July 1981 one created and world-wide more than 400 employees employed. The conversion amounted to in the financial year 2001/2002 approx. 806 million US Dollar. The enterprise is led to the Nasdaq and "CREAF".

Products

The enterprise developed promptly chips and sound maps, which can change a digitally stored noise into an audio signal. for PCs and consoles. Admits became Creative lab particularly as a manufacturer of the sound map "Soundblaster ", with which promptly a quasi-standard - beside AdLib - was created. MS-DOS did not offer a uniform programming interface for sound maps; Applications, which should show Samples, had to head for therefore the hardware of each special sound map directly. It became usual necessary for manufacturers, that went starting from 1990 into the market, to to develop sound maps which were hardware-compatible to the Soundblaster. Manufacturers, that did not reach compatibility, were in the disadvantage, since a multiplicity of applications starting from 1989 supported the Soundblaster, while for the new products however no support was present. An exception were those pro audio Spectrum maps (short PAS) of the competitor MediaVision, which likewise represented a kind standard.

In the past years Creative diversified its business. This happened from the necessity that sound maps, and in particular the sound blowing he series, today only more by sound enthusiasts and PC players (because of the good multi-channel ability) are bought. On the other hand are usually sufficient Otto an ordinary consumer the on the motherboards.

From the sound map market to to be around more independent Creative lab produces in the meantime also MP3-Player, loudspeaker systems, portable Media center, diagram maps, LCD monitors, input devices such as keyboards and mice and Webcams.

In connection with the development of MP3-Player and portable Media center (e.g. Zen vision) offers in the meantime also different software to Creative lab for the medium administration. For the support of Podcasts Creative developed the software ZenCast as well as for further support than portal (zencast.com).

Related links

• Internet operational readiness level of Creative Worldwide
• Internet operational readiness level of Creative Germany
• Internet operational readiness level of Creative Austria
• Portal for Videoblogs and Podcast (English)

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