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Thanks to CTOnews.com netizens quyang998877 and OC_Formula for the clue delivery! According to an obituary released by @ Creative's official Weibo yesterday, Shen Wangfu, founder of Creative Technology, died peacefully on Wednesday at the age of 67, CTOnews.com reported on January 7.

CTOnews.com learned that Shen Wangfu is called "the father of computer sound cards" in the industry, and some people call him "Singapore's Musk". He is the first generation of technology entrepreneurs in Singapore and is known as "Singapore's first technology genius". He invented a "Chinese-speaking computer" as early as 1984, and at the age of 45, Shen Wangfu became the youngest billionaire in Singapore.

Shen Wang, born in Zhaoan, Fujian Province, was born in Malaysia in 1955 and later became a Singaporean. In 1981, Shen Wangfu and his old classmates started with a capital of S $10,000 to set up a computer maintenance shop called Creative Technology Innovation Technology. The initial business included computer courses, computer maintenance, computer sales, electronic design engineering, software writing and modification. Later, innovative technology began to create custom computers for Chinese, including enhanced audio functions that enable devices to produce melodies and sounds, including Mandarin. In 1984, Innovation and Technology made Cubic-99, which was the first "Mandarin-speaking computer" in the world. In 1986, Cubic-CT multimedia and Chinese personal computer were invented.

In November 1989, Innovation and Technology launched the "Sound Blaster Card", which allows computers to make sound and play music, including music synthesis, speech synthesis, digital voice input / output, MIDI / game dubbing, and so on. In 1992, the Sound Blaster Card of Innovation and Technology became the global computer audio industry standard.

In January 2018, Super X-Fi, a sound processing technology that took 20 years and $100 million to build, won a big prize at the consumer electronics show CES in the US. Sound clear fly technology allows users to listen to headphones can also get a sense of space and surround effect like the combination of multiple speakers, the sound in the headphones, like natural sound, has a sense of three-dimensional, direction and space. Shen Wang Fu describes Shengshui as a "sword that took 20 years to sharpen" and is a technology that changes the rules of the game.

It is worth mentioning that Innovation and Technology had a patent dispute with Apple, and Apple computer ended up paying $100 million.

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