Sony to sell PS3 chip lines to rival Toshiba
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Sony Corp said Thursday that it had agreed to sell its production facilities for the powerful computer chip at the heart of its struggling PlayStation 3 game console to rival Toshiba Corp.
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Sony Corp. took another step to lure new customers for its high-end PlayStation3, saying it would sell a device to let users record live television that can be stored on the game console or transferred to the PlayStation Portable for later viewing.
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Sony Corp  will launch a cheaper model of its PlayStation 3 in the United States, hoping to attract more buyers as it goes up against rival game consoles from Microsoft and Nintendo this holiday.
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Sony Corp. slashed the price of its current PlayStation 3 by $100, or 16.7 percent, and introduced a high-capacity model in an effort to spur sales of the struggling video game console.
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Sony Corp.  will launch its  PlayStation 3 with an 80-gigabyte (GB) hard disk drive on June  16 in South Korea for 518,000 won ($556), offering the upgraded  version of its latest game console for the first time ever, the  Japanese electronics conglomerate said.
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Sony revealed new details on Monday on the chip that will power the next PlayStation and said development is on track to deliver products based on the chip next year.
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"Supercomputer on a chip" expected to power Sony's PlayStation 3.
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Sony Corp. is removing a chip from the  European version of its new PlayStation 3 (PS3) game console, a  move that cuts costs but means users cannot play some of their  old games.
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Sony, IBM and Toshiba on Monday disclosed some of the first details of their Cell chip, jointly developed by the three companies, that will form the basis of the next generation of PlayStation game consoles.
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CHIBA, Japan  - Sony Corp. 6758.T on Friday cut   the price of its new game machine PlayStation 3 by 20 percent   in Japan, in a surprise move that will attract more customers   but likely widen losses in its game division.
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Sony Corp. (6758.T) will cut back on  future chip spending and may not produce advanced chips used in  its PlayStation 3 (PS3) in-house, a senior executive said on  Tuesday, in a move aimed at driving the semiconductor unit's  nascent earnings recovery.
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Watch out, Nvidia, here comes... er... SpursEngine Toshiba will next week formally announce a processor based on the Cell chip that sits inside each Sony PlayStation 3 games console. The new CPU will be pitched not only at consumer electronics kit but set head-to-head with today's PC and Mac graphics chips.â¦
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Sony Corp. has no plans to cut the price  of its PlayStation3 (PS3) at present to pep up demand and  counter surging sales of Nintendo&#39;s rival game console Wii,  Sony&#39;s president said on Friday.
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TOKYO - Sony Corp. is selling its advanced computer chip operations to Toshiba Corp. , a Sony official said today, speaking on condition of anonymity.
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Sony Corp. will lower the price of its much-anticipated PlayStation 3 video game console, Kyodo News agency reported Friday, as competition heats up in next-generation gaming between Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo.
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Sony's PlayStation 3 is going to do for video games what the microwave did for leftovers.
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It's goodbye from him, and it's goodbye from me Sony plans to end sales of its 20GB and 60GB PlayStation 3 (PS3) models in Japan, within just two months.â¦