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Sony, Toshiba to jointly set up new chip plant
Tokyo, Apr 19: Consumer electronics giant Sony Corporation and Toshiba Corporation, Japan`s largest chipmaker, will join hands in developing a new generation of semiconductors in a bid to take the lead in the field, Japanese media reported on Saturday.
Tokyo, Apr 19: Consumer electronics giant Sony Corporation and Toshiba Corporation, Japan's largest chipmaker, will join hands in developing a new generation of semiconductors in a bid to take the lead in the field, Japanese media reported on Saturday.
Financial daily Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Nikkei) said the Sony group, the country's biggest user of chips, would invest abut 50 billion yen in a state-of-the-art semiconductor plant planned by Toshiba.
The two electronics giants would jointly build the facility to mass-produce a new micro-processing unit - the key component of digital home electronics - at Toshiba's Oita factory, and planned to have it in operation by 2004, the paper said.
Toshiba and the Sony group decided to tie up from the construction stage of the new facility in order to begin mass production at an early date, the Nikkei report said.
The two electronics giants would jointly build the facility to mass-produce a new micro-processing unit - the key component of digital home electronics - at Toshiba's Oita factory, and planned to have it in operation by 2004, the paper said.
Toshiba and the Sony group decided to tie up from the construction stage of the new facility in order to begin mass production at an early date, the Nikkei report said.
The new plant would mostly manufacture a new micro-processing unit now being developed jointly by Toshiba, Sony's videogame unit, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc (SCE) and IBM Corporation.
The new chip would be used in SCE's next-generation PlayStation game console, as well as high-performance home computers and other products.
Bureau Report