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Ken Kutaragi | |
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.jpg) Kutaragi with his Lifetime Achievement Award at the Game Developers Choice Awards 2014 | |
| Born | 2 August 1950 Kōtō, Tokyo, Japan |
| Alma mater | University of Electro-Communications |
| Occupation(s) | Engineering technologist, businessman |
| Known for | PlayStation, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Cellius |
| Children | 1 |
Ken Kutaragi (久夛良木 健, Kutaragi Ken, born 2 August 1950) is a Japanese engineering technologist and businessman, currently president and CEO of Cyber AI Entertainment. Formerly the chairman and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE), the video game division of Sony, Kutaragi is known as "The Father of the PlayStation"[1] having overseen the development of the original console and its successors and spinoffs until departing the company in 2007, shortly after the PlayStation 3 was released.
Kutaragi 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.
- ^ Kageyama, Yuri (5 April 2005). "Demoted Sony Guru is outspoken". The San Francisco Examiner. Associated Press.