Manufacturer | Creative Technology |
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Introduced | 1990; 29 years ago[1] |
Type | Consumer sound cards |
Color | Function | |
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Pink | Analog microphone input. | |
Light blue | Analog line level input. | |
Lime green | Analog line level output for the main stereo signal (front speakers or headphones). | |
Black | Analog line level output for rear speakers. | |
Silver | Analog line level output for side speakers. | |
Orange | S/PDIF digital output (sometimes used as an analog line output for a center and/or subwoofer speaker instead) |
Name | Bit depth | EAX | Transistors | Notes |
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EMU8000 | 0.5 million | |||
EMU10K1 | 16-bit | 2.0 | 2.44 million | 350 nm, 335 MIPS, 32 DirectSound3D sound channels |
EMU10K2 | 16-bit | 3.0 | 4 million | 200 MHz, 64 DirectSound3D sound channels |
EMU10K2.5 | 24-bit | 4.0 | 4,6 million | 180 nm, 200 MHz, 424+ MIPS, 64 DirectSound3D sound channels |
EMU20K1 | 24-bit | 5.0 | 51 million | 130 nm, 400 MHz, 10,340 MIPS, 128 DirectSound3D sound channels |
EMU20K2 | 24-bit | 5.0 | ? | 65 nm, Fixes bugs in EMU20K1, PCI Express, embedded RISC processor |
Sound Core3D | 24-bit | 5.0 | ? | Integrated analog codec and digital I/O |
SB-Axx1 | 24-bit | 5.0 | ? | Found in some Sound Blaster USB audio devices |
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