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Ken Kutaragi
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Ken Kutaragi

Japanese engineer


Birthday
Wednesday
He is born 74 years, 3 months and 19 days ago
Birthplace
Tokyo, Japan
Nationality: japanese
Birth sign: Leo
Chinese birth sign: Tiger
Born the same day: 08/2/1950
Mathieu Carrière

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", 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.

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.

Source : Wikipedia