Creative Announces Sound Blaster Performance 4x

New High Performance Sound Blaster Wave-Table Multimedia Kit is First in a
Series and Extends Company's Quad Speed Product Line

MILPITAS -- June 6, 1995 -- Creative Labs, Inc., a U.S. subsidiary of
Creative Technology Ltd. (Nasdaq: CREAF), today announced Sound Blaster
Performance 4x, first in a series of high performance multimedia kits to
provide the next generation of Sound Blaster audio and the latest CD-ROM
technology. Sound Blaster Performance 4x adds to Creative's growing line
of best-selling quad speed kits, combining the proaudio quality of Sound
Blaster wave-table synthesis, Creative's quad-speed IDE CDROM drive and
new powerful stereo speakers. With real instrument sounds, leading edge
CD-ROM technology and highly popular software titles, Sound Blaster
Performance 4x is the ultimate upgrade kit that gives home PC users a
powerful multimedia computing tool for entertainment and education. Sound
Blaster Performance 4x will be available at retail outlets this month for
a projected price of $429.

"Consumers have come to expect the highest level of quality from Creative,
the most trusted name in the multimedia industry," said Arnold Waldstein,
vice president of U.S. software and product marketing for Creative Labs,
Inc. "Sound Blaster Performance 4x is a perfect example of our dedication
to making the newest technology available to the widest range of
consumers. This high performance kit continues this commitment by
combining the next generation of Sound Blaster wave-table audio together
with standard-setting quad speed technology, great sounding speakers and
leading software for the home computer user and the greater multimedia
market."

Features of Sound Blaster Performance 4x

Sound Blaster Performance 4x includes a wave-table Sound Blaster 32 audio
card for real instrument sounds, a quad speed IDE CD-ROM drive and
powerful stereo speakers from Creative plus software titles from leading
publishers including, Papyrus, Electronic Arts, Interplay Productions and
Grolier Electronic Publishing.

The kit's Sound Blaster 32 card uses E-mu Systems' EMU8000 chip to provide
32-note polyphony of realistic wave-table sounds, 128 General
MIDI-compatible instruments and sounds, 10 drum kits, and reverb and
chorus effects. It also provides 16-bit digital stereo sampling and
playback, enhanced FM synthesis and an upgrade path for adding up to 28 MB
of standard SIMM memory. The additional memory allows new instruments and
sounds to be easily added to the card.

Sound Blaster Performance 4x's quad speed drive provides a 600KB per second
transfer rate, a better-than 250ms access rate and compatibility with the
Kodak photo CD. Its IDE interface is best suited to handle the high-speed
transfer rates of quad speed drives, allowing users to obtain optimum
performance of software titles.

In addition, the kit's high value software bundle includes six audio
utilities from Creative and the following eighteen titles for education
and entertainment.

* Interplay Productions' Descent Destination Saturn
* id Software Inc.'s Doom Episode I
* id Software Inc.'s Heretic Episode 1
* Papyrus' NASCAR Racing
* Electronic Arts' Hong Kong Mahjong Pro
* Origin Systems' Pagan: Ultima VIII
* Electronic Arts' SSN-21: Seawolf
* Origin Systems' Shadowcaster
* Origin Systems' Strike Commander
* Electronic Arts' Syndicate Plus
* Origin Systems' Ultima Underworld
* Blizzard Entertainment's WarCraft Special Edition
* Origin Systems' Wing Commander II
* Grolier Electronic Publishing's Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
* Davidson and Associates' KidWorks II
* Davidson and Associates' Spell It 3
* Davidson and Associates' The Cruncher
* Voyetra Technologies' MIDI Orchestrator Plus

"Sound Blaster Performance 4x is great for those who want to upgrade their
PCs with the latest audio technology for professional-quality sound that
enhances most software applications," said Kim Federico, product marketing
manager, multimedia kits for Creative Labs. "This multimedia kit makes
buying new technology 'worry-free' by matching the next generation Sound
Blaster audio with a powerful quad speed drive and a library of wave-table
software products."

Creative's quad speed product line now includes Sound Blaster Performance
4x, Sound Blaster Multimedia Home 4x, Sound Blaster Digital Schoolhouse
4x, Sound Blaster Discovery CD 4x and Blaster CD 4x. Each of these
products serve the differing needs of PC users and the various multimedia
market segments. For example, Blaster CD 4x provides consumers with a way
to upgrade to quad speed CD-ROM technology, while Performance 4x launches
a new series and gives families everything they need for high performance
multimedia computing.

Creative Technology Ltd. develops, manufactures and markets a family of
sound, video, software and telephony multimedia products for PCs under the
Blaster family name, and the ShareVision line of desktop video
conferencing products for Macintoshes and PCs. The
company's Sound Blaster sound platform enables PCs to produce high-quality
audio for entertainment, educational, music and productivity applications,
and has been accepted as the industry standard sound platform for PC-based
software.

Creative Technology Ltd. was incorporated in 1983 and is based in
Singapore. Creative Technology's U.S. subsidiaries include Creative Labs,
Inc., E-mu Systems, Inc., Digicom Systems, Inc. and ShareVision
Technology, Inc. Creative also has other subsidiaries in Australia, China,
Europe, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. The company's
stock is traded on Nasdaq under the symbol CREAF and on the Stock Exchange
of Singapore.

Creative Labs Inc
1901 McCarthy Blvd
Milpitas, CA 95035
408-428-6600,  fax 408-428-2394

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