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Straitstimes.comCreative Technology founder Sim Wong Hoo dies at age 67Jan 4, 2023...
SINGAPORE - Creative Technology chairman and chief executive Sim Wong Hoo, one of Singapore’s most famous tech entrepreneurs, died on Wednesday.
He was 67.
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Mr Sim founded the home-grown business in 1981, and had led the company since its inception. In a bourse filing on Thursday, Creative said Mr Sim “passed away peacefully”, without giving further details.
Under his leadership, Creative became famous for its Sound Blaster sound cards and digital entertainment products.
It became the first Singaporean company to list shares on the Nasdaq in 1992.
Mr Sim, who was single, grew up in a kampung in Bukit Panjang, the youngest of 12 children in his family.
He studied at Bukit Panjang Government High School and graduated from Ngee Ann Polytechnic, where he read electrical and electronic engineering, in 1975.
He then set up Creative in 1981 as a computer shop in Chinatown with his schoolmate, Mr Ng Kai Wa, who is now a board member.
Creative’s Sound Blaster card, launched in 1989, wa