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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 hardware, most notably the YM2612 sound chip for the Sega Mega Drive.
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Hardware produced
Consoles
- Copera (1993)
Integrated circuits
- YM2151
- YM2413
- YM2612
- YM2602 (VDP for Sega Master System)
- YM7101 (VDP for Sega Mega Drive)
- Sega MultiPCM (based on Yamaha YMF278)
- Yamaha Super Intelligent Sound Processor
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.
