Ken Kutaragi
Japanese engineering technologist and businessman (born 1950) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ken Kutaragi (久夛良木 健, Kutaragi Ken, born 2 August 1950) is a Japanese engineering technologist and businessman. He is the former chairman and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE), the video game division of Sony Group Corporation, and current president and CEO of Cyber AI Entertainment. He is known as "The Father of the PlayStation",[1] as he oversaw the development of the original console and its successors and spinoffs, including the PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, and the PlayStation 3. He departed Sony in 2007, a year after the PlayStation 3 was released.
Ken Kutaragi | |
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Born | (1950-08-02) 2 August 1950 (age 73) Kōtō, Tokyo, Japan |
Alma mater | University of Electro-Communications |
Occupation(s) | Engineering technologist, businessman |
Known for | PlayStation, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Cellius |
Children | 1 |
He had also designed the sound processor for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. With Sony, he designed the VLSI chip which works in conjunction with the PS1's RISC CPU to handle the graphics rendering.