Former AMD exec: Xbox One APU project worth over $3 billion

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Pemalite said:

g911turbo said:

True.  But at the end of the day closing this deal vs. not was a good thing for AMD revenue.  I have a funny feeling that margins are slim upfront however.

Yeah the margins would be slim, then again it's not like the CPU/GPU was built from scratch, AMD already had the technology at it's disposal, so it shouldn't have been cost prohibitive from an R&D perspective.

Plus, the APU's in the PS4 and Xbox One are pretty monolothic from a die-size perspective, so they won't exactly be cheap to manufacture either, $3 Billion is really a drop in the bucket for something that's going to be produced for a decade for a company of AMD's size.

AMD doesn't manufacture the chip.