dallas on 03 October 2007
It was a plant that was sold, not the rights to make the chips or whatever. Sony's idea is to use someone else's plant that would be more efficient in making semiconductors cheaply, rather than its own plant doing this. Sony just doesn't have the expertise, or experience to do a great job at this. They've always been a hardware company, and probably purchased semiconductors from somebody else, not a semiconductor manufacturer.
