The business was started in 1981 by Sim, born in 1955. Since its founding, he has served as its CEO and chairman.
In its release, Creative Technology notes that “Mr Sim has played a crucial role in the development of the firm and has provided the company with strong leadership and vision.”
Sim oversaw Creative Technology, which rose to prominence with its Sound Blaster sound cards and established itself as a global leader in digital entertainment devices, including the Creative Zen portable media players.
What happened to Sim Wong Hoo?
On January 4, Sim Wong Hoo, the company’s founder, CEO, and chairman passed away. On January 5, the Corporation made the heartbreaking announcement.
“The board expresses its sincere grief at Mr. Sim’s passing and sends its condolences to his family on behalf of all firm employees,” it states.
Sim Wong Hoo cause of death
The community is inconsolable about Sim Wong Hoo’s cause of death. Apart from the confirmation of his death, it is now unknown precisely what caused his passing. Sim Wong Hoo’s actual cause of death was also not made public.
We are working on getting in touch with Sim Wong Hoo’s friends and family to learn more about the cause of death. As soon as we remember anything more about the tragic event that made many people cry.
The CEO of homegrown gaming gear business Razer, Tan Min-Liang, said on Facebook that he frequently met Mr Sim to talk about design and audio technologies.
The technology industry and Singapore have lost a legend, he wrote.
Who was Sim Wong Hoo?
Mr Sim founded the local business in 1981 and has served as its president ever since. Under his leadership, Creative gained notoriety for its Sound Blaster sound cards and other digital entertainment products.
Just a few of its audio products include wireless speakers, headphones, home theatre systems, amplification devices, and digital audio converters. Mr Sim died away peacefully, according to Creative, which also announced in a bourse filing on Thursday that the board of directors “expresses its profound regret over the demise of Mr. Sim and sends its sympathies to his family.” The business kept this information private.
Sim Wong Hoo was a millionaire inventor and businessman from Singapore. He was brought up in a Singaporean Zhao’an Hokkien family and went to Bukit Panjang Government High School.
After graduating from Ngee Ann Technical College in 1975 with a degree in Electrical & Electronic Engineering, he went on to work in the engineering field for the private sector.
Creative Technology
With a financial investment of US$6,000, Sim and former classmate Ng Kai Wa founded Creative Technology as a computer repair shop in Pearl’s Centre, Chinatown, on July 1st, 1981. He developed a memory expansion tool for the Apple II computer there and sold it.
Later, Creative began creating PCs specifically for the Chinese language, improving the audio functions so the devices could produce speech and tunes.
The success of this audio interface led to the development of the standalone sound card Sound Blaster. It was offered to the general public, making it one of the first popular dedicated audio processing cards.
Creative had complete control of the PC audio market until the early 2000s when OEM PCs began to be built with motherboards that included soundboards. Sound Blaster was subsequently consigned to a niche market.
HanZpad
At a press appearance in Beijing toward the end of 2011, Sim Wong Hoo unveiled his most recent invention, the HanZpad. Sim had also given unconventional advice to young businesses, telling them not to get married.
He made it clear that starting a family and getting married would impose obligations on him that would limit his ability to take risks. He went on to claim that because he is single, he is unrestricted in taking risks, enabling him to achieve extraordinary success.
Recognitions
Sim Wong Hoo has received commendations for his concepts from both the corporate and government worlds. He received the Bintang Bakti Masyarakat (Public Service Star) in 2001 from Singapore in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the business.
According to Fortune Magazine, he was in second place for Asia’s Businessman of the Year in January 2001. At age 45, he attained the status of Singapore’s youngest billionaire. He created history when, in 1992 and 1997, he became the first person to receive Singapore’s Businessman of the Year honours twice.
For his services to the IT industry, the Singapore Computer Society named him Person of the Year in 2002. Sim, who had presided over Singapore’s Technopreneurship 21 Private Sector Committee, was one of the city’s most well-known businesspeople.
His Book
Sim Wong Hoo coined the phrase “No U-turn syndrome” in his 1999 book Chaotic Thoughts From The Old Millennium to refer to the traditional Singaporean way of thinking, which requires getting permission from higher authorities before acting.
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