Sony buying back Cell chip fabrication facilities from Toshiba, it's official

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[/img]It's official. Sony and Toshiba just issued a press release
saying that the two companies have signed a binding memorandum of
understanding to transfer Tosh's fabrication facilities, operated by
Nagasaki Semiconductor Manufacturing, back to Sony. A deal that is
rumored to cost Sony some 50 billion yen (about $835 million) -- a
bargain considering that Sony sold the facilities that manufacture the
Cell Broadband Engine, RSX graphics engine, and other SoCs to Toshiba
for 90 billion Yen back in 2008. Unfortunately, Sony's being coy about
its plans for the new facilities. The two hope to complete the
transfer sometime in the fiscal year ending March 31, 2012.