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AMD CEO Lisa Su reminisces about designing the PS3's infamous Cell processor during her time at IBM

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it's also a great win for AMD, in general, to provide the hardware behind the two biggest consoles on the market for two consecutive (and a third upcoming) console generations.
Doesn't the Switch have as much market share as the other two combined?
- different generation
  
  How can the switch be a different console from last gen, current gen, and next gen? Those are literally the only generations it could be considered part of.
- Does it count as a console?
  I really don’t know, I guess you could say handheld gaming console, but consoles have to hook up to something.
  I’ve always heard it as consoles are static and portables are called handheld gaming systems
  
  I can't believe this discussion is still happening
  
  Is a laptop a PC? Tsk tsk
  
  Per Wikipedia, yes. A game console is the general term. A home console is the one that plugs into a tv, and a handheld console is something like a switch.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_console
I’m nitpicking, I know, but to be infamous is a bad thing. It’s more likely the author meant prestigious or esteemed.
- The cell processor is infamous for making the PS3 notoriously difficult to develop for.
  
  It was ahead of its time and required parallel processing before most developers or game engines had experience supporting it. Multicore processors didn’t become mainstream for another ~5 years.

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