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 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

Integrated circuits

Sound chips

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

VDP

Softography

Pico

Gallery

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