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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(4 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #1 Posted by +Ironman273 on 20 Feb 2008 - 16:07
I hope there are no sour grapes over HD-DVD Oh, so sorry Sony. We ran out of Cell chips for your PS3...
Quote this comment #1.1 Posted by jstillion on 20 Feb 2008 - 16:10
Sony, Toshiba, and IBM co-developed the cell processor.

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.
Quote this comment #1.2 Posted by +Ironman273 on 20 Feb 2008 - 16:39
I understand that, but if Sony is selling all the manufacaturing to Toshiba then they will decide who can get the chips.
Quote this comment #1.3 Posted by draklin on 20 Feb 2008 - 17:31
(Ironman273 said @ #1.2)
I understand that, but if Sony is selling all the manufacaturing to Toshiba then they will decide who can get the chips.


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.
Quote this comment #1.4 Posted by pjak on 20 Feb 2008 - 20:04
would be funny if that contract mentions anything about dropping HD-DVD format...like, stop HD-DVD production and start Cell Processor production...

anyway Toshiba, if you can't beat them...

Quote this comment Reply to this comment #2 Posted by Co_Co on 20 Feb 2008 - 19:39
I can't wait to buy a Cell powered, Toshiba branded Blu-Ray player...that'll be a laugh
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #3 Posted by TruckWEB on 20 Feb 2008 - 22:27
At CES 2008, Toshiba showed their new HDTV using the CELL CPU for all thing picture/audio related task.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #4 Posted by Nodiaque on 21 Feb 2008 - 01:14
Weird it happen nearly at the sametime toshiba claim hd-dvd is dead for not consumer friendly blu-ray format
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #5 Posted by k22 on 21 Feb 2008 - 03:37
still waiting on the toaster with the cell proc to become available
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