The Company, founded in 1981 by Sim Wong Hoo, was incorporated as a private limited company on 18 July 1983 to design, manufacture and distribute PC products. In 1984, Creative launched the Cubic 99, Singapore's first locally-designed and produced PC. In 1986, it introduced the Cubic CT, a multilingual multimedia PC with voice and music multimedia functions.In 1989, it launched the Sound Blaster, making it the world's best selling sound platform for IBM-compatible PCs and the de facto industry standard sound platform.The Sound Blaster technology is available in the form of a card and a chipset, which can be installed onto the motherboard of a PC.Creative was listed on Nasdaq in August 1992.The Group is now a provider of multimedia hardware and software products for use with PCs. The hardware and software products that Creative develops, manufactures and markets are used in the PC home entertainment, education, music and productivity tools markets to enhance sound, graphics or other functions of a PC. Creative's products are marketed through both the OEM and retail channels under a variety of trademarks, including the `Blaster' family name.The principal activities of the Group consists of the design, manufacture and distribution of digitised sound and video cards, computers and related multimedia and personal digital entertainment products.