Sony’s PS4 helped AMD to avoid going bankrupt, according to the Red team’s Gaming Client PC Business lead.
Things didn’t go too well for AMD a decade ago, and analysts predicted that the Red Team would go bankrupt by 2020. Luckily, In 2015, AMD reported a revenue decline of 10% due to a shrinking PC market. Luckily, working with Sony on the PS4 helped AMD to avoid bankruptcy. At least, that’s what AMD’s Renato Fragale writes on his LinkedIn resume (as spotted by the ever eagle-eyed @Bogorad222 on X).
“Managed 15-person product development team for Sony PlayStation 4 (PS4) that has sold over 91Mu to date”, AMD’s Gaming Client PC Business Lead writes on LinkedIn. “Viewed as one of the most successful launches in AMD history helping AMD to avoid bankruptcy.”
Interestingly, Sony’s PS4 wasn’t the only console that made use of a custom AMD chip – Microsoft’s Xbox One was also powered by a custom AMD SoC. Yes, profit margins would have been quite slim for AMD, but Sony (and Microsoft as well) managed to sell millions of AMD-powered consoles, highlighting the Red Team’s ability to create custom SoCs. One of the reasons that Microsoft’s console isn’t mentioned in Fragake’s resume might be sales numbers – to date, more 117 million PS4 consoles have been sold, whereas Microsoft has managed to sell around 58 million Xbox One consoles. Although Microsoft has not been sharing hardware sales numbers for years, an analyst predicted that around 35 million Xbox One consoles were sold globally as of early 2018.
We’ve included a screenshot of Fragale’s resume below in case this text gets pulled or edited.
An interesting take from AMD’s Gaming Client PC Business Lead, and one that we imagined worth sharing. What’s your take on this? Hit the comments below. For the sake of completeness, we’ve included the full specification of 2013’s PlayStation 4 below:
As said, Sony’s PS5 also makes use of a custom AMD solution – just like like the Xbox Series X|S consoles from Microsoft.
