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Re:AMD, which lost over $2.8B in 5 years, takes a hit after ... by MulliMulli on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @10:29AM (#15601413)
This week:

Sony profits rise 346% thanks to strong performance from PlayStation gaming unit

Next week:

New Xbox and new Playstation will be released.

I don't get how they can claim that consoles will slow down.

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Re:AMD, which lost over $2.8B in 5 years, takes a hit after ... by agumonkey on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @10:38AM (#15601499)
Maybe the new models aren't equipped with AMD chips ? Also AMD had to cut profits on the previous console CPUs IIRC. So that's not a "value" for the stock market.
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Re:AMD, which lost over $2.8B in 5 years, takes a hit after ... by MulliMulli on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @10:48AM (#15601599)
Both are powered by AMD, and it has been confirmed for almost a year.
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Re:AMD, which lost over $2.8B in 5 years, takes a hit after ... by TazeTSchnitzel on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @10:39AM (#15601513)
It's still semi-custom AMD silicon (but new and improved!). I don't think they could actually switch GPU architecture within the console lifecycle without breaking things, and there's also nobody to go to anyway (who else makes semi-custom high-performance x64 SoCs, let alone with decent graphics?).
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Re:AMD, which lost over $2.8B in 5 years, takes a hit after ... by agumonkey on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @10:45AM (#15601577)
Yeah I was overly cautious, it would be high risk to pull the rug at that time.
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Re:AMD, which lost over $2.8B in 5 years, takes a hit after ... by esturk on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @03:05PM (#15604492)
I know about the Xbox one x, but where did you hear about a new PlayStation being released or announced?
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Re:AMD, which lost over $2.8B in 5 years, takes a hit after ... by MulliMulli on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @06:33PM (#15606107)
Sorry, my fault - was talking about the PS Pro, which also has AMD in it.
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Re:AMD, which lost over $2.8B in 5 years, takes a hit after ... by milcron on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @01:14PM (#15603374)
Nintendo is finally switching to Nvidia.
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