Sony Corp said on Wednesday it will sell its microchip production facilities in western Japan to Toshiba Corp for 90 billion yen ($835 million), in their latest move to focus on their core businesses. The equipment will be used by their semiconductor joint venture that will make high-performance Cell chips and RSX graphic chips, both used in Sony's PlayStation 3 game console, as well as other microchips that go into Toshiba products. The venture will be established on April 1.
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Ibm using it to sell servers, Sony & Toshiba plan to use this for future electronics, such as tv's, etc. PS3 just happened to be the 1st device to use it.
Sony is trying to cut costs, and get back to be more profitable, and it cheaper in the long run if someone else ran the plant.
No doubt there is a contract in place that will govern the supply and any penalties if Toshiba would be unable to meet the agreed upon number of chips.
anyway Toshiba, if you can't beat them...
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