Yamaha Corporation

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

Products

• Synthesizers
  • Yamaha DX7
• Sound chips
  • Yamaha YM2149 - used in the Atari ST, MSX, Intellivision and ZX Spectrum computers
  • Yamaha YM3526 (a.k.a. OPL)
  • Yamaha YM3812 (a.k.a. OPL2) - used in AdLib and early Sound Blaster sound cards
  • Yamaha YMF262 (a.k.a. OPL3) - used in Sound Blaster Pro 2.0 and later cards

• Home Electronics
  • Yamaha DSP-1 - An early home theater surround sound component produced in 1985

• yamaha.com
• global.yamaha.com