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Sony Corporation is investing over a billion dollars to increase Playstation 2 chip production. The company is spending 125 billion yen ($1.2 billion) to boost production...

Quang Hong, Blogger

June 1, 2000

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Sony Corporation is investing over a billion dollars to increase Playstation 2 chip production. The company is spending 125 billion yen ($1.2 billion) to boost production of the Sony Computer Entertainment and Toshiba developed Emotion Engine processor for Playstation 2. Toshiba's Emotion Engine plant in southern Japan manufactured two million chips in the first 82 days following the Playstation 2's Japanese launch, and both companies hope to better that mark proceeding the console's North American debut in October.

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