Creative Technology founder dies, aged 67


Game changer: Sim’s firm created the Sound Blaster card, which by 2019, had sold 400 million units.

SINGAPORE: Creative Technology chairman and chief executive Sim Wong Hoo, one of Singapore’s prominent tech entrepreneurs, died on Wednesday. He was 67.

Sim founded the home-grown business in 1981, and had led the company since its inception. In a bourse filing yesterday, Creative said Sim “passed away peacefully”, without giving further details.

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