Microsoft announced this week that it had extended its partnership with AMD, who will be designing the chips to go in the company’s next-generation Xbox games consoles. While it might seem like an obvious bet, this is still a big win for AMD, and potentially for consumers, too.
For AMD, this represents a long-tail partnership with likely tens of millions of chip orders over the life of the next-generation console, and even more when you factor in Microsoft’s language around expanding portable gaming options.
