joeorc said:
o'l brother..bailing..huh, look who happen's to hold patent's on the Cell processor, and guess what Sony can just buy chip's off of Toshiba or build another plant and produce them their selves if Sony wanted too....you act like the Cell is a Failure..god you are dense -beer is on tap
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Sony has sold their chip facilities to Toshiba for cheap because they could no longer finance the losses.
Toshiba now holds more patents to CELL then Sony AND is making them for Sony and themselves.
Apart from the PS3 Toshiba is also the only company actually putting CELL in a consumer product because hey they have it so why not use it.
Toshiba and IBM hold all the cards here, Sony has none left. Sony cant demand further development of CELL because they abandoned the project themselves, Sony cant expect economies of scale to lower the price of CELL and is at the mercy of Toshiba since they have no fabrication facilities left nor the money to start any(that entire thing with being in debt several billion dollars and all you know).
In short the future of CELL is screwed and so is Sony with regards to CELL.