Aureal Semiconductor

Aureal Semiconductor Inc. was an American electronics manufacturer, best known throughout the mid-late 1990s for their PC sound card technologies including A3D and the Vortex (a line of audio ASICs.) The company was the reincarnation of the, at the time, bankrupt Media Vision Technology, who developed and manufactured multimedia peripherals such as the Pro Audio Spectrum 16.

Aureal Semiconductor Inc
Company typeCorporation
IndustryAudio Technologies
PredecessorMedia Vision Technology
FoundedNovember 9, 1995 (1995-11-09)
DefunctSeptember 21, 2000 (2000-09-21)
FateBankrupt, dissolved.
Assets were acquired by Creative Technology
HeadquartersFremont, California
Key people
  • Kenneth 'Kip' Kokinakis, (President, CEO)
  • Toni Schneider (VP of technology, 1996-1998; VP of marketing, 1998-2000)
SubsidiariesCrystal River Engineering
Websitewww.aureal.com at Bibliotheca Alexandrina (archived August 8, 2002)
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