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alessandro to PC Gaming · 1 year ago

Sony Playstation 4 chip helped AMD avoid bankruptcy — exec recounts how 'Jaguar' chips fueled company's historic turnaround

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Sony Playstation 4 chip helped AMD avoid bankruptcy — exec recounts how 'Jaguar' chips fueled company's historic turnaround

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alessandro to PC Gaming · 1 year ago
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A mighty Jaguar, and a pair of consoles, came to the rescue.
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    Wow how terrible would that have been for the CPU/GPU industries.

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      I wonder if Nvidia / Intel would’ve been forced to help out AMD to get around a monopoly. Wasn’t that a thing with Microsoft and apple in the 90s?

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        They don’t give a shit any longer because regulators are only allowed to eat their own buggers.

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