Creative Technologies Limited (Ticker symbol CREAF), more commonly known as Creative Labs, "is a listed manufacturer of computer multimedia products based in Singapore. It has more than 5,000 employees worldwide. [1]" Creative gained notoriety in the fledgling computer-based audio market in the early nineties with its revolutionary product, the Sound Blaster audio card. The trademark Sound Blaster is now ubiquitous with computer-based audio products worldwide. The intervening decade has seen Creative purchase 3DLabs, a high-end graphics card fabricator. Creative welcomed in the new millennium by suing Aureal Semiconductor Corporation into bankruptcy over software patent issues. Creative proceeded to pillage the bullet riddled corpse of their biggest competitor and seized all assets with regard to A3D [2].
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*Source: Techware Labs (
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