Is Ensoniq still around?

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Does anyone know the current status of Ensoniq,
the company that designed the Apple IIGS sound chip?

The company had a very proud heritage starting with
a team of engineers from Commodore to marketting
synths and samplers for professional musicians to
the IIGS sound chip (which, talk about nostalgia,
Ensoniq devoted a web page for back when it was
an independent company).

Well, a couple of years ago, Ensoniq was bought
by Creative.  Creative also bought E-mu, which was
another big name in the music circle.  For a time,
sound cards based on both technologies coexisted,
much the same as VIA bought both Cyrix (which
made the Cyrix M2 chips) and Centaur (which
made the Winchip) and let them coexist until one
emerge dominant.  For VIA, that was the Centaur
team.  The Cyrix III seen today (or C3) is not a
real Cyrix.  It is the next stage of the Winchip
design.

Is Ensoniq finally lost and gone like Cyrix?  I still
have a couple of Creative Ensoniq Audio PCI
cards that I love because they function just like
the IIGS sound system.  Well, ok, of course it
supports a greater bit depth and much larger
wavetables than the IIGS chip but what I mean
is that the overall fucntion is similar.  The card
has four different wavetable files that can be
loaded from the CD-ROM which is exactly what
I as a IIGS user of old am familiar with.

I believe, though, that ever since the Audigy
series (presumably based on E-mu technology)
Ensoniq is all but dead.