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AMD engineer tells the tale of when the PlayStation 4 saved the chipmaker from bankruptcy

A LinkedIn resume footnote has brought renewed attention to AMD's dark days during and after 2008 financial crisis. According to the CV and comments from an engineer,...

Engineer Phil Park responded to a clip of the resume on Twitter, confirming that those years were highly precarious for the company. To make matters worse, Intel paid OEMs billions to keep AMD chips out of pre-built PCs. Red Team's current Zen and RDNA architectures are leaders in the industry, powering the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series machines.

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