AMD's Xbox One Deal Valued at $3+ Billion USD
AMD is making big bucks off the Xbox One alone.
Bob Feldstein, the current VP of Technology Licensing at Nvidia, served as ATI's VP of Engineering and its VP of Strategic Development from 1994 until 2006 when AMD acquired the company. For the next seven years, he served as AMD's VP of Business Development, and then he joined Nvidia in July 2012. That said, he has some knowledge about what's going on inside AMD.
According to his LinkedIn profile, AMD's involvement with the Xbox One console is valued to be worth more than $3 billion USD. He also acknowledges that AMD has provided a custom silicon solution for Microsoft for the Xbox One, a game console and entertainment device cramming into "one" form factor.
"My involvement was focused on business management and supply agreement negotiations," he states. "This required the coordination of multiple functional teams within AMD, as well as regular customer meetings with leadership teams responsible for handling the challenges of complex, multi-year deals. This project is valued at $3+B."
He also talks about the PlayStation 4 that was revealed to the public on February 20. Unfortunately, he doesn't provide any financial worth on the project, but he's less vague with the Sony console, and talks about the Jaguar cores and Radeon graphics.
"The Sony PlayStation game console is powered by a semi-custom AMD APU," he states. "This processor is a single-chip custom processor, with eight x86-64 AMD Jaguar CPU cores and a 1.84 TFLOPS next-gen AMD Radeon based graphics engine supported by 8 GB DDR5 memory. AMD silicon will be a key enabler for the next generation of gaming experiences through this partnership with Sony, who has built the largest installed base of game consoles in existence today."
If anything, the two posts clearly show that AMD is playing a big part in the next-generation console wave. The Nintendo Wii U isn't quite as AMD-focused, featuring an IBM PowerPC 750-based three-core Espresso" chip clocked at 1.2 GHz, and an AMD Radeon "Latte" 550 MHz GPU with a built-in eDRAM cache.
Let's hope they get back near Intel again. Because I'm sick of this more power, less performance irritation.
Considering how big Intel are (much bigger than AMD) and that Nvidia are doing pretty well, I doubt this will mean AMD leaves both of them in the dust. This will not even be close to a monopoly, in fact Intel are much closer to one than AMD (anti-trust law suit because Intel were essentially paying manufacturers to choose them over AMD some time ago)... yeah. Not even close. AMD laid off about thousands of people last year or something so this is a good thing for you and I.
Considering how big Intel are (much bigger than AMD) and that Nvidia are doing pretty well, I doubt this will mean AMD leaves both of them in the dust. This will not even be close to a monopoly, in fact Intel are much closer to one than AMD (anti-trust law suit because Intel were essentially paying manufacturers to choose them over AMD some time ago)... yeah. Not even close. AMD laid off about thousands of people last year or something so this is a good thing for you and I.
Sorry to be a grammar Nazi, but a company is treated as a singular entity (a legal "person"). So you should say, "considering how big Intel is . . .."
Considering how big Intel are (much bigger than AMD) and that Nvidia are doing pretty well, I doubt this will mean AMD leaves both of them in the dust. This will not even be close to a monopoly, in fact Intel are much closer to one than AMD (anti-trust law suit because Intel were essentially paying manufacturers to choose them over AMD some time ago)... yeah. Not even close. AMD laid off about thousands of people last year or something so this is a good thing for you and I.
Sorry to be a grammar Nazi, but a company is treated as a singular entity (a legal "person"). So you should say, "considering how big Intel is . . .."
You are correct. I see this grammatical mistake quite often. I'm guessing that this is correct grammar in whatever country they live in, but I still find it annoying.
Looking back at stock value and past involvement in developing consoles, business decisions to provide AMD architecture were correct and beneficial. This recent news shows it to be correct once again.
@internetlad
Clearly you have distorted image of AMD as company that produces wide variety of chips on this planet we call Earth. Now, if you would think Intel is big company, I have enlightening news for you. Have you heard of Qualcomm and Foxconn? These two companies produce every chip there is, unless a chip is being made in private lab.
You are correct. I see this grammatical mistake quite often. I'm guessing that this is correct grammar in whatever country they live in, but I still find it annoying.
It's correct grammar in Britain, where they use the word "are". So I don't think it's a grammatical mistake any less than "favour" or "theatre" would be spelling mistakes.
The use of plural verbs with singular terms is not all that uncommon in British English slang, but usage frequency does not make it correct. Jane and I once had a back-and-forth about it. She explained how she ran into this issue quite often during her early writings for Tom's UK/IRL, elaborating that she was "smacked upside the head" for making this same mistake. (To TH-UK: Don't smack Jane!)