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Creative Announces Blaster CD 6x

New CD-ROM Upgrade Kit Features Creative's Own High Performance 6x Drive

MILPITAS -- August 21, 1995 -- Creative Labs, Inc., a U.S. subsidiary of Creative Technology Ltd. (Nasdaq:CREAF), today introduced Blaster CD™ 6x -- a high-end CD-ROM upgrade kit for home and business power users. Blaster CD 6x features Creative's own hex-speed IDE CD-ROM drive which offers a 50 percent increase in data transfer rate, a significant jump in performance over today's quad-speed CD-ROM drives. Blaster CD 6x includes a CD-ROM interface card and Grolier Electronic Publishing's award winning Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia™. The product will be available in September at retail stores for a projected price of $299.99.

"Blaster CD 6x gives users the latest in CD-ROM technology to provide superb performance of software titles for education, entertainment and productivity," said Arnold Waldstein, vice president of U.S. software and product marketing for Creative Labs, Inc. "Blaster CD 6x marks Creative's foray into the high speed CD-ROM market and furthers its position as a key provider of multimedia technology."

Creative's 6x speed, internal, IDE CD-ROM drive offers a 900 KB per second transfer rate, a data access rate of 220 ms and 256 KB of cache memory. It is multi-session, Kodak Photo CD compatible, exceeds MPC Level 2 specifications and it is CD-ROM XA ready. The drive also features an automatic front-loading tray, a front panel headphone jack and volume control for playback of audio CDs. In addition, it includes an IDE CD-ROM interface card and support for Microsoft Windows '95.

Creative Technology Ltd. develops, manufactures and markets a family of sound, video, software 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.

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Sound Blaster is a registered trademark and Blaster and Blaster CD are trademarks of Creative Technology Ltd. E-mu is a registered trademark of E-mu Systems, Inc. and ShareVision is a registered trademark of ShareVision Technology, Inc. All other products mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective owners and are hereby recognized as such.