Sim Wong Hoo

The Singaporean tech entrepreneur helped changed the PC landscape by giving it the gift of sound in late 90s.

Meanwhile, [Sound Blaster’s name is still being used today](https://sg.creative.com/p/sound-blaster)for various internal and external sound cards as well as speakers and gaming headsets but [its critically acclaimed Super X-Fi technology](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnOJYA5KuZA)is actually the one that is carrying the company’s mantle these days. That being said, Sound Blaster was not the only product group that has put Creative Technology on the global map. It generally helped Sim to become Singapore’s youngest billionaire at the age of 45 in 2000. There was a time when you have to install a dedicated sound card in order to have audio coming out from your PC. In fact, it became The role of interim CEO has since been assumed by the President of the Creative Labs Business Unit, Song Siow Hui while the company’s Lead Independent Non-Executive Director, Lee Kheng Nam has taken over as the acting Chairman.

SINGAPORE, Jan 5 — Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat today paid tribute to Singaporean inventor Sim Wong Hoo, saying that the late founder of ...

He said that he last met the tech pioneer before the Covid-19 pandemic, when they discussed Creative Technology’s new headphones and expansion plans. The cause of his death is yet unknown. In 2019, Heng made a mention of the Super X-Fi technology in the national Budget statement when he was finance minister at the time.

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): Creative Technology chairman and chief executive Sim Wong Hoo, one of Singapore's most famous tech ...

Even on the night before, he had a long discussion with the engineering team and was scheduled to meet with the online sales team the next day. It made a comeback in 2019 with Super X-Fi, an audio technology that it spent 20 years developing to the tune of US$100 million. Creative shares traded on the Singapore Exchange, where it has been listed since 1994, dropped from a high of $64 in March 2000 to around $1 in 2017. He had also gone to war with the Apple co-founder Steve Jobs over their companies’ portable music players. Its Sound Blaster sound card, launched in 1989, was a game changer in allowing PCs to generate quality sound. Under his leadership, Creative became famous for its Sound Blaster sound cards and digital entertainment products.

Sim Wong Hoo, who founded Sound Blaster producer Creative Technology in 1981 and remained at its head ever since, has died. A statement released by the ...

[settled for a $100 million payment](https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/apple-settles-with-creative-for-100-million-1/) out of pocket, and Mr. Creative had its own lineup of Zen audio players at the time, and these had an interface for scrolling through your library of music that Apple quite liked for its own. I also still have a Sound Blaster sound card in my PC, and as a child/teen I even had a Creative Zen MP3 player. My second sound card (ironically, replacing an Ad Lib) was a Sound Blaster Pro, which came out in 1991 and helped push the company's global revenues to well over $1 billion by the mid-1990s. Creative Technology—known as Creative Labs in North America—was a groundbreaking player in the early days of PC gaming thanks to its long-running series of audio cards. Creative is also notable for squaring off with Apple—and winning—in a 2006 patent dispute over Apple's hot new invention, the iPod.