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What Happened to Media Vision Silicon Valley’s Biggest Fraud That Became a Sound Card Company

Media Vision was once one of Silicon Valley's most ambitious technology companies. But behind its rise was a financial scandal that would bring the business crashing down. So how did a company caught up in one of the technology industry's biggest fraud stories become known for something completely different: PC sound cards? This is the story of Media Vision's extraordinary rise and fall, the people behind the scandal, its transformation into a sound card business, and the legacy it left behind in the early days of multimedia computing. A forgotten chapter of Silicon Valley history. Subscribe to Tech Archive for more stories about the technology companies that changed the industry, disappeared, or were remembered for entirely different reasons.