{"id":9143,"date":"2010-12-24T10:42:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-24T08:42:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"sony-to-buy-back-ps3-chip-plant-from-toshiba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/9143-sony-to-buy-back-ps3-chip-plant-from-toshiba","title":{"rendered":"Sony to buy back PS3 chip plant from Toshiba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The two companies said Friday in news releases that they had agreed to complete the deal by around March of next year.<\/p>\n<p>Toshiba paid 90 billion yen ($1.1 billion) for the facilities in the southern prefecture of Nagasaki in a deal announced in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>The companies then formed a joint venture to produce the powerful Cell processor, which is used in the PlayStation as well as limited consumer products and computers.<\/p>\n<p>Toshiba, Sony and IBM Corp. jointly developed the chip and hoped to use it in a wide variety of applications, but its main use remains the PlayStation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony Corp. is buying back a chip factory from Toshiba Corp. that produces the core processor for the PlayStation 3 game console.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}