Sony sells $835m PS3 CPU plant to Toshiba
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Consolation prize? Sony today re-iterated its plan to sell its Cell processor chip factory to Toshiba, which will pay Â¥90bn ($835m) for the facility.â¦
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The Department of Energy awarded I.B.M. a contract to build a supercomputer using chips designed for the coming PlayStation 3.
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Sony Corp. (6758.T) said on Wednesday  that it now expects to ship 2 million units of its PlayStation  3 (PS3) video game console by the end of this year, half its  original target of 4 million units.
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Sony Corp. , the world's biggest game-console maker, cut the price of the PlayStation 3 in the United States by $100, or 17 percent, responding to the widening lead of Nintendo Co.'s Wii and Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360.
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Sony Corp  said on Wednesday it  will sell its microchip production facilities in western Japan  to Toshiba Corp  for 90 billion yen ($835 million), in  their latest move to focus on their core businesses.
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Japan's Sony Corp  is in talks to  sell its production facilities for advanced microchips used in  its PlayStation 3 game console to Toshiba Corp ,  sources close to the matter said.
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'Within our reach' to sell 6m by April 2007, prez states Sony's plan to ship 2m PlayStation 3 consoles worldwide by the end of the year and a further 4m PS3s by the end of March 2007 is still "within our reach", company President Ryoji Chubachi told reporters this week.â¦
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Cell production timeline indicates PS3 release
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As part of its cost-cutting effort, Sony may outsource PS3 chip production.
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Destined for servers not PS3, at least not at the start... IBM has beguin punching out a 65nm version of the Cell processor used in Sony's PlayStation 3. Gamers should not get too excited: Big Blue's Broadband Engine - to give Cell its full name - is aimed not at consoles but slimline servers.â¦
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Eighty percent of the power for the project comes from spare processor cycles on PlayStation 3 consoles.
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Sony dropped the price on its PlayStation 3 in July - from $599 to $499 for its 60-gigabyte model - and got a bump in sales, but Nintendo&#39;s Wii continued to dominate by posting its largest monthly sales figure of 2007.
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Sony announces new functionality for both its PS3 and PSP gaming hardware.
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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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IBM IBM.N, Sony Corp. 6758.T and  Toshiba Corp. 6502.T on Monday unveiled some key details on  the powerful new "Cell" processor the three are jointly  producing to run next-generation computers, game consoles and  TVs.
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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. is introducing a new version of its PlayStation 3 console in North America in August and cutting the price of the current 60G-byte model by US$100 from Monday, it said.