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Yamaha

Founded: 1887-08-12

Headquarters:

Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan

The Yamaha Corporation (Japanese: ヤマハ株式会社; Romaji: Yamaha Kabushikigaisha) is a Japanese company with a large number of product areas. Sales offerings include motorcycles (Yamaha Motor Corporation), musical instruments, integrated circuits, and home electronics. It was founded by Torakusu Yamaha as Nippon Gakki Co., Ltd. (Japanese: 日本楽器製造株式会社; Romaji: Nippon Gakki Seizou Kabushikigaisha) in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka prefecture. Yamaha acquired Korg in 1989.

Yamaha has produced many of the integrated circuit chips for Sega arcade and console hardware, such as the YM2612 sound chip for the Sega Mega Drive console. Yamaha held the patent for FM synthesis, which was featured in many Yamaha synthesizers and sound chips, while some of their sound chips also featured PCM sampling. In addition, Yamaha also manufactured VDP graphics processors for the Sega Master System and Mega Drive consoles.

Hardware produced

Consoles

Copera (1993)

Integrated circuits

Sound chips

Sound chip	Year	Channels	FM synthesis			SSG	PCM sampling			Systems
Sound chip	Year	Channels	Operators	Channels	Max ops/channel	Channels	Channels	Depth	Max sample rate	Systems
Yamaha YM2151	1983	8	32	8	4	0	0	N/A	N/A	Arcade (Sega System series), Sharp X68000
Yamaha YM2203	1984	6	12	3	4	3	0	N/A	N/A	Arcade (Sega Hang-On hardware)
Yamaha YM2413	1986	9-11	18	9-11	2	0	0	N/A	N/A	Mark III (FM Sound Unit), Master System (JP), MSX
Yamaha YM2612	1988	6	24	6	4	0	1	8-bit	44,100 Hz	Mega Drive, Arcade (Sega System series)
Yamaha YMFA1005 (Sega MultiPCM)	1992	28	0	0	N/A	0	28	16-bit	44,100 Hz	Arcade (System Multi 32, Model 1, Model 2)
Saturn Custom Sound Processor (SCSP / YMF292)	1994	32	32	32	6	0	32	16-bit	44,100 Hz	Saturn, Arcade (ST-V, Model 2, Model 3)
Yamaha Super Intelligent Sound Processor (AICA)	1998	64	0	0	N/A	0	64	16-bit	48,000 Hz	Dreamcast, Arcade (Sega NAOMI series)

VDP

Video Display Processor (VDP)	Year	Data bus width	Pixel clock	Resolution	Palette	Colors on screen	Sprites on screen	Colors per sprite	BG tile planes	Sega systems
Yamaha YM2602 (Sega 315‑5124)	1985	16-bit	5,369,318 Hz	256×224 pixels	64 colors	32	64	15	1	Mark III, Master System, Arcade (System E)
Yamaha YM7101 (Sega 315‑5313)	1988	16-bit	6,711,647 Hz	320×448 pixels	1536 colors	183	80	15	3	Mega Drive, Arcade (Mega-Tech System, System C, Mega Play, System 32)

Softography

Pico

Melody Land (1993)
Do Re Mi Fa Densetsu (1993)
Copera no Time Machine (199x)
Otto Katachitchi (199x)
Outa no Canvas (199x)
Copera no Kono Ato Naani (1994)
Mike to Asobou Tobidase Milky Way (1994)
Oshare no Kuni no Alice (199x)
Copera no Chikyuu Daisuki (199x)
Bouken! Merorin-tou (199x)

Gallery

Logo for XGlite; a Yamaha extension to the General MIDI standard supported by the Sega Dreamcast.

External links

References

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