Yamaha

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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 hardware, most notably the YM2612 sound chip for the Sega Mega Drive. Most of Yamaha's sound chips for Sega systems were capable of FM synthesis, while some were also capable of PCM sampling.

Hardware produced

Consoles

Integrated circuits

Sound chips

VDP

Softography

Pico

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