Sony considers selling manufacturing facilities to Toshiba
Posted Oct 4th 2007 4:00PM by Andrew Yoon
Filed under: Business
The second time in less than a month, Sony is supposedly considering selling its chip manufacturing plants to rival electronics company Toshiba. According to a report by Reuters, "Sony was in negotiations with Toshiba to sell its manufacturing facilities in Nagasaki, also in western Japan, for advanced microchips including the Cell microprocessor." The Cell processor is a vital part of the PS3 architecture and is one of the costliest and most powerful aspects of the system.
Although both companies have declined to comment, the Business Daily Nikkei has estimated the sale value of the production facilities at 100 billion yen ($856 million).
[Via Next Generation]
Tags: cell, sony, toshiba
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1. Operating cost of the facility must be too much to out weight its benefits. This is why Nvidia and ATI (when it was independent) don't own fabs. It's all about the marginal cost/profit.
Posted at 4:12PM on Oct 4th 2007 by ruibing