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 Folding@home distributed computing project of Stanford University has hit the petaflop mark with 80 percent of the power coming from spare processor cycles on PlayStation 3 consoles.
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Details of the chip designed to power Sony's PlayStation 3 console will be released on Monday.
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The chip that will power the PlayStation 3 is said to be up to 10 times faster than current processors.
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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 revealed their plans for the  powerful new "Cell" processor the three are jointly producing  to run next-generation computers, game consoles and  televisions.
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NEW YORK, December 8  - Sony Corp (SNE.NYS) named NVIDIA yesterday as the supplier of the graphics chips required for its upcoming Playstation 3 video game console.
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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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"Supercomputer on a chip" expected to power Sony's PlayStation 3.
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SANTA MONICA, California  - Sony Corp. is likely  to cut its PlayStation 3 price again by year-end following this  week's $100 cut, a senior executive at Japanese game software  maker Capcom Co. Ltd. said.
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The chip in Sony's initial PS3 versions that enables backward compatibility with older PlayStation games, called the "Emotion Engine," will be eliminated from the structure of new 80GB units, which go on sale in August.
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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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Sony Corp. (6758.T) plans to lower the  production cost of its PlayStation 3 (PS3) game consoles by  using less expensive chips, aiming to turn the operations  profitable between September and next March, the Nikkei  business daily reported on Friday.
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Sony Corp.  plans to  phase out the cut-priced $499 model of its PlayStation 3 video  game machine, leaving only a higher capacity $599 model for  sale in the United States, the company said on Monday.
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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  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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Sony Corp. said on Friday it will  eliminate a key microchip from the European version of its  PlayStation 3 (PS3) game console, reducing production costs as  well as its compatibility with PS2 games.