Grosse claque pour Ken Kutaragi, qui avec pas mal d'autres va démissioner du conseil d'administration, mais reste directeur de SCE: pas vraiment une promotion qd on voit le travail qu'il a effectué et les ambitions affichées pour la compagnie (dont plus d'uniformisation entre les différentes branches).
Il ne supervise plus les opérations sur les semi-conducteurs, ce pourrait être un mauvais coup pour le CELL de Sony.
Extrait du Wall street journal:
In elevating Messrs. Stringer and Chubachi, Sony is bypassing the man often cited as its top visionary: Ken Kutaragi, an executive deputy president who created Sony's PlayStation videogame business and is now in charge of home electronics. Although PlayStation is one of Sony's most successful and profitable businesses, Mr. Kutaragi hasn't yet had a big success outside of videogames. One of his flagship consumer-electronics products -- a hybrid DVD recorder and game console called the PSX -- has not sold well in Japan. He has been immersed in a project to build a new ultrapowerful processing chip slated for use in the next-generation PlayStation machine and other devices.
Mr. Kutaragi will lose his executive deputy president title after April 1 and be moved back to focusing on videogames, Sony said. His post as executive overseeing home electronics as well as the semiconductor business will be taken over by Mr. Chubachi. Mr. Kutaragi couldn't immediately be reached for comment.