Sony to cut chip production costs

[Non Sequor]

dallas said:
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.

 I'd say that this is probably because with PS3 sales so low, they have much more production capacity than they need and the upkeep on it is killing them.

 It's kind of interesting that Toshiba is one of their collaborators on the Cell processor and one of their chief rivals in the Bluray/HD-DVD war.  I'm not sure if Toshiba will be very generous to Sony in a deal like this.