An AMD employee’s LinkedIn profile has given a slight insight into the industry’s inner workings, revealing that the release of the PS4 helped the company avoid bankruptcy.
According to the LinkedIn profile of Renato Fragale, the current Senior Director of OEM Consumer & Gaming Client Business at AMD, the company’s work on Sony’sPlayStation 4helped AMD avoid bankruptcy.
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On his LinkedIn profile, Fragale wrote:
“Managed 15-person product development team for Sony PlayStation 4 (PS4) that has sold over 91Mu to date.
“Viewed as one of the most successful launches in AMD history helping AMD to avoid bankruptcy.”
Fragale was Senior Manager for Product Development Engineering at the time of the PS4’s release.
AMD has almost always been involved in some aspect of game console development. ATI, who provided chips for theGameCubeand Wii, was bought by AMD in 2006. ATI also helped provide the Xenos GPU for theXbox 360.
Since its buyout, AMD has provided chips for not just the PS4, but the current generation of consoles with itsRDNA2 architecture. The Steam Deck also uses a custom AMD chip, as does Asus and Lenovo with their handhelds.
While Fragale mentions 91 million units sold, the number is out of date. Current estimates and Sony’s own numbers put that total at around 117 million.
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Joel Loynds was Dexerto’s Deputy Tech Editor in the UK team. He has been writing about tech & games for over a decade, specializing in PCs, hardware, and handhelds such as the Steam Deck. He also has bylines at Scan, WePC, PCGuide, Eurogamer, Digital Foundry and Metro UK.
