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CELL Production Begins Early News
Chris Leyton
03/02/2004

Sony makes major investment to ramp up the production of the CELL processor…
Sony today announced that it will invest an extra 120 billion yen (£620 million) towards creating production plants for the mass production of the CELL processor.
Almost half of the investment will be spent on the current Sony Computer Entertainment production-line in Nagasaki, Japan, whilst a further 34 billion yen (£180 million) will be invested in an IBM manufacturing plant in New York.
As a result both Sony and IBM have confirmed that mass production of the CELL processor will begin earlier then intended, moving from the latter half of 2005 to the first half of 2005. Naturally this has sent out the signal that Sony are gearing up to release the Playstation3 as quickly as possible, having presumably been rushed into it by recent rumours that Xbox2 production is stepping up and the recent downswing in Playstation2 sales.
Itās believed that the manufacturing plants will have a total capacity of 15,000 CELL processors per month, so signs still suggest that Sony intend on releasing the Playstation3 in 2006; even if Sony run at a full year production from January 2005, they would only be able to launch with 200,000 units at most ā“ not even enough for a full-scale Japanese launch.
Weāll have more information on any further developments soon.







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