Sony to sell PS3 chip lines to rival Toshiba

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Sony Corp said Thursday that it had agreed to sell its production facilities for the powerful computer chip at the heart of its struggling PlayStation 3 game console to rival Toshiba Corp.

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5g6PJ5skYw9uVrEi3WqQVcOOCUaWw

This is all pretty weird. Now that Sony is dependent on Toshiba to produce the PS3 cell chip, what if Toshiba, trying to cripple Blu-ray, increases the price of each unit and hence the price of the PS3? I'm sure the sale agreement prevents things like this from happening, but it's an interesting situation. HD DVD players powered by PS3-like cell chips?

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