AMD's earnings report suggests new consoles this year

Will the Nintendo NX be powered by AMD and is "PS4K" increasingly likely?
Text: Eirik Hyldbakk Furu
Published 2016-04-04

Many of us expect Nintendo to launch their new console this year, and three weeks ago we heard the first rumours of a new PlayStation 4. These rumours won't exactly go away after AMD's latest earnings report.

They have a few interesting statements in their report for 2015's fourth quarter: "Demand for game consoles looks strong for 2016 and we remain on track to generate additional revenue from new semi-custom business in the second half of 2016.

Game consoles -- we see units going up 2016 to 2015. We've also said in the enterprise embedded and semi-custom segment that we will be ramping some new design revenue in the second half of 2016.

We have new products being introduced in both the businesses with the new design wins in the second half on the semi-custom side."

So they have new products, plural, coming in the second half of this year? Are we talking about Nintendo's new console and the upgraded PlayStation 4? These next couple of months will be very interesting. E3 can't come soon enough in our opinion.

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