Sony expected to shed its inhouse chip design and manufacturing including Cell assets. More focus/cash to be spent on core product lines.
TOKYO (Reuters) - 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.
The sale, which would include production lines for the "Cell" microchips, dubbed "supercomputer on a chip", is part of Sony's strategy to shed costly semiconductor assets and focus on the production of strategic products such as image sensor chips used in digital cameras and camcorders, they said.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - 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.
The sale, which would include production lines for the "Cell" microchips, dubbed "supercomputer on a chip", is part of Sony's strategy to shed costly semiconductor assets and focus on the production of strategic products such as image sensor chips used in digital cameras and camcorders, they said.