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Sony to sell chip facility to Toshiba for $835 million

In a move to focus on their core businesses, Sony Corp. announced Wednesday that it will sell its microchip production facilities in western Japan to Toshiba Corp. for 90 billion yen ($835 million).

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sevanig5909d ago

they feel sorry for toshiba losing the hd war...

Zip5908d ago

Observably Sony feels bad for them :-)... They don't want to be kicking a football around themselves on a giant statidum themselves lol

kewlkat0075908d ago

"It's nothing new, strategically speaking and it's NOTHING to be concerned about, either. It is understandable though, that they want to cut their hardware manufacture losses and leave the miniaturisation of the Cell BE to the next two levels to someone who knows what they're doing (IBM) or have/want the manufacturing capacity (Toshiba)."

Tochiba may have lost HD-DVD but they will be making plenty on the next 45nano and 32nano cell production which sony have jumped off that ship.

Don't you just love business. If they decide to use the next iteration of the cell on the PS4 (Which I doubt) well Toshiba will still get paid.

Gorgon5908d ago

" If they decide to use the next iteration of the cell on the PS4 (Which I doubt) well Toshiba will still get paid."

I'm not so sure about that. The Cell was develop not only for the PS3 but also for other consumer electronics. It cost a fortune to develop while MS just grabed a conventional PowerPC cpu and customized it. I don't think that Sony will just throw away the Cell for the PS4 and start developing a new CPU from scratch. Too costly.

The way I see it they're going to put a multi-core Cell in the next PS4. Why? it won't cost anywhere as near as developing somethin from scrath AND by that time devkits and delopers experience with the Cell will be far more advanced. PS2 was also a pain in the ass back in the old days and now is just rotine. The same will happen with the Cell. No point in introducing something completely new. This is especially true if Sony decides to come up with a new PS4 fast by 2010/2011 to battle xbox 720 if the later shows up by 2010.

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6 Fun Games Where You Actually Play As The Bad Guy

While the mainstream media always sees things turning in favor of the hero, here are 6 games that own being a bad guy.

Profchaos1h ago

Pretty much all of these games listed are based around a morality system you don't have to be bad and you don't have to be good.

It seems to have left out some real amazing games like red dead redemption 1/2,ass effect and true crime la/ny

Tacoboto1h ago

Armored Core VI?

Ok, I'm really missing something here. Just beat chapter 3 earlier this evening, unlocked A-rank Arena fights. I'm not seeing or sensing any branching paths or morality system and I've done every side mission and arena fight available to me up to that fight.

Is something big coming soon to branch the story?

banger8846m ago

No mention of Grand Theft Auto? Saints Row (original trilogy), Manhunt? Also The Suffering (depending on the ending you get).

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The Best PS5 Headset In 2024

Gamespot: The SteelSeries Arctis Nova 7P is still our favorite PS5 headset, but there are several great alternatives to choose from in 2024.

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LG's 2024 UltraGear OLED 240Hz gaming monitors are already on sale, saving you hundreds

Bruce writes: "We just found two of LG's recently-launched UltraGear gaming monitors that have eye-catching discounts - check them out before the sale ends!"