Sony Considers Outsourcing Cell Production

Gamasutra reports on comments from the Sony home office, where executives are considering plans to outsource production of the expensive/complicated Cell chips that power the PS3. Executive deputy president Yutaka Nakagawa is quoted in a Reuters report, saying that when the PS2 launched there just weren't other companies to turn to. With the chip market better-developed in 2007, there are third parties Sony is now considering to take on the task of advancing/producing the Cell. Outsourcing could also help financially with their beleaguered semiconductor division. The next move for the Cell is to 45 nanometer manufacturing, from the 90/65 the company is currently using. This scale change could not only help with profits, but may eventually make dropping the price on the PlayStation 3 an easier pill to swallow.

Comments

I'll do it

[Red Moose]

I have some solder and a few old consoles. The games are the same old shit anyway. I'll lash together a C64 and a PSX, call it Cell and if Sony are as stupid as their marketing tactics suggest they are, they will buy it.

I have no PS3, but I would like a canoe and to take up white water rafting instead.