A month ago we ran a well-circulated >rumour that Sony was selling the Cell biz. Today the company formally announced it had struck a deal. Once the $1 billion+ deal is finalized, production facilities would belong to Toshiba, but the result will be a joint venture for producing serious semiconductors, presumably so Sony doesn’t have to give up all of its Cell-chip bragging rights. [AFP/Yahoo; Kotaku]
David D.
Friday, October 19, 2007 at 3:54 PMThis is a bizarre agreement considering the 2 companies are at each others throat for the HD-DVD and BluRay fiasco. Maybe Toshiba plans to take over producing the chips and either sabotage them so the PS3 tanks or maybe just shut down production altogether thereby giving HD-DVD a more even footing.