Sony buys back Cell processing plant from Toshiba; makes a killing

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Sony sold it for 90 billion yen and re-bought it for 50 billion yen and so it appears it made some profit, but that's all the positive I see here (if it is indeed a positive, since I know nothing about depreciation of value of processing plants).

When a company that bought a factory sells it at a loss, it means to me that either it badly needed the money and/or what it was manufacturing (the Cell) didn't turn out well for that company. While it is not necessarily a sign of weakness for the Cell, it certainly isn't a sign of strength.

Sony's re-buying the factory could be a sign of financial strength, but could also have been part of the original selling agreement (e.g. there could have been a stipulation that if Toshiba gets stuck with the factory Sony will have to re-buy, albeit at a price after depreciation).

As to Cell speculations - why does almost everybody here read it as obvious future plans for the Cell when Sony themeselves say "that it may repurpose the facility to produce HD image sensors for cameras and smartphones" ?

I could very well be wrong and this could be super positive news for Sony and the Cell, I just don't read it that way and wouldn't no matter what company or processor such news would have been about.