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- 1998
- October
- Announced the shipment of the computer industry's first complete desktop theater system - Creative PC-DVD Encore 5X and Cambridge SoundWorks DeskTop Theater 5.1 - for the PC.
- August
- Launched Sound Blaster® Live!™, the revolutionary new PCI audio solution that incorporates the superior surround-sound rendering of Environmental Audio to deliver real audio experience that goes beyond “Hollywood” quality audio and offers unprecedented immersive audio.
- July
- Unveiled Sound Blaster® PCI128 and PCWorks FourPointSurround - the first complete audio system for multi-channel surround sound - at a highly attractive price.
- June
- HansVision Future 2000 is an Internet-enabled bilingual software program that comprises a Chinese word processor (HansWord), an English/Chinese two-way dictionary (HansBrowser) and an online translator of webpages from English to Chinese (HanSight). The advanced software package was deployed in all schools in Singapore from July 1998.
- May
- At Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) 1998 in Atlanta, Creative announced that top developers including Accolade, Bungie, GT Interactive's Epic MegaGames/Digital Extremes and Fox Interactive have signed up to support Creative's Environmental Audio Extensions™. This was the latest applications programming interface (API) that allows developers to optimize their newest games to use the features in Creative's next-generation Environmental Audio platform.
- Creative acquired Silicon Engineering, Inc., a key innovator in the design and development of integrated circuits for the multimedia, storage and communications markets.
- February
- Consolidated its China operations at the main Beijing office under Creative Future Computer.
- January
- Launched Video Blaster® WebCam II digital color camera for the desktop that comes with features and productivity software that can enhance Internet experience such as jazz up a personal website, send a video greeting card or visit long distance friend.
- Acquired the NetMedia group from OPTi, Inc to form a new subsidiary Ectiva Inc., which works closely with Creative's R&D department on developing new audio technologies.
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