OFFICIAL: Sony Sells Cell Processing Plant to Toshiba
- Scribbled on October 18th, 2007 by Jonah Falcon
- Filed in Industry News, Press Release, Sony PlayStation 3
Distubing news for Sony stock shareholders – Reuters has announced that Sony has sold its Cell processing chip to Toshiba. This deal had been rumored about, but it’s now official – Sony is liquidating assets for temporary cash flow.
The electronics and entertainment conglomerate plans to sell to Toshiba its “Cell” microprocessor output facility in Nagasaki prefecture and “RSX” graphic chip production line in Oita prefecture, both in western Japan, by March 2008.
Toshiba, Sony and Sony Computer Entertainment—Sony’s video game unit—plan to set up a joint venture next April to run the Nagasaki facility.
Sony said back in February it would cut future chip spending and might not produce an advanced version of the “Cell” chip with 45 nanometer circuitry in-house.
The intriguing sidebar to all of this, of course, is the fact that Toshiba backs the HD-DVD format. There’s also the rumors that Sony’s quietly dropping plans to make the PlayStation 4.
(Official Toshiba Press Release.)
October 18th, 2007 at 7:15 pm
[...] HardGame2 ya os lo anunció hace unas semanas, pero no ha sido hasta hoy que se ha hecho oficial: Sony vende la totalidad de sus plantas de manufacturación de los chips Cell y RSX a Toshiba. La acuciante necesidad de cash flow de la corporación japonesa la ha obligado a tomar tamaña decisión. Se confirma que tras el lanzamiento del modelo de 40 Gb de PlayStation 3, el cual incluye una versión mejorada del chip Cell con construcción de 65 nm, no habrá más versiones del mismo. Incluso algunos apuntan que Sony podría estar abandonando el proyecto de PlayStation 4, aunque esto último no deja de ser un rumor altamente improbable. Si domináis el idioma de Shakespeare, os invitamos a pinchar aquí para leer el comunicado de prensa oficial. Fuente: Game Stooge. [...]
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