Editing Sony (section)

====Computing====
[[File:SONY VAIO VPCZ119FJ-S 02.jpg|thumb|Notebook [[Sony Vaio]]. Sony axed its loss-making PC business in 2014.]]
Sony produced computers ({{ill|SMC-777|jp|SMC-777}} personal computer, [[MSX]] [[home computer]]s and [[Sony NEWS|NEWS]] [[workstation]]s) during the 1980s. The company withdrew from the computer business around 1990. Sony entered again into the global computer market under the new [[VAIO]] brand, began in 1996. Short for "Video Audio Integrated Operation", the line was the first computer brand to highlight visual-audio features.<ref name="Nakamoto" />

Sony faced considerable controversy when some of its laptop batteries exploded and caught fire in 2006, resulting in the largest computer-related recall to that point in history.<ref>{{Cite news |date=14 August 2006 |title=Dell Details on Notebook Battery Recall |publisher=Direct2Dell |url=http://www.direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2006/08/14/1803.aspx |access-date=21 August 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060820160832/http://www.direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2006/08/14/1803.aspx |archive-date=20 August 2006}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=14 August 2006 |title=Dell announces recall of 4.1&nbsp;million laptop batteries |publisher=CBC News |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/dell-announces-recall-of-4-1-million-laptop-batteries-1.622108 |access-date=28 September 2006 |archive-date=2020-10-02  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201002183954/https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/dell-announces-recall-of-4-1-million-laptop-batteries-1.622108 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=24 August 2006 |title=Sony, Dell battery issue heats up |publisher=CBC News |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/sony-dell-battery-issue-heats-up-1.574712 |access-date=24 August 2006 |archive-date=2010-12-04  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101204012713/http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2006/08/24/tech-battery.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

In a bid to join the [[tablet computer]] market, the company launched its [[Sony Tablet]] line of [[Android (operating system)|Android]] tablets in 2011. Since 2012, Sony's Android products have been marketed under the [[Xperia]] brand used for its smartphones.<ref>{{Cite web |date=30 July 2009 |title=Tablet & Smartphones &#124; Xperia™ Tablet & Smartphones |url=http://www.sony.co.uk/hub/sony-tablet-smartphones |access-date=10 July 2013 |publisher=Sony |archive-date=2014-01-24  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140124053850/http://www.sony.co.uk/hub/sony-tablet-smartphones |url-status=live }}</ref>

On 4 February 2014, Sony announced that it would sell its VAIO PC business due to poor sales<ref name="Sony VAIO divestment">{{Cite news |last=Smith |first=Mat |date=6 February 2014 |title=Sony sells its VAIO PC business, makes TV arm its own subsidiary |work=Engadget |url=https://www.engadget.com/2014/02/06/sony-sells-vaio/ |access-date=6 February 2014 |archive-date=2020-01-29  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200129053600/https://www.engadget.com/2014/02/06/sony-sells-vaio/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and Japanese company Japan Industrial Partners (JIP) will purchase the VAIO brand, with the deal finalized by the end of March 2014.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Catherine Shu |date=6 February 2014 |title=Sony To Exit PC Business By Selling VAIO |url=https://techcrunch.com/2014/02/06/sony-vaio-sale/?ncid=tcdaily |access-date=7 February 2014 |website=TechCrunch |publisher=AOL, Inc |archive-date=2021-01-26  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126083131/http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/06/sony-vaio-sale/?ncid=tcdaily |url-status=live }}</ref> As of 2018, Sony maintained a 5% stake in the new, independent company.

In the 1990s, Sony was contracted to manufacture laptop computers for Apple and Dell.<ref>{{cite news |title=COMPANY NEWS; Sony Is Near Macintosh Pact |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/16/business/company-news-sony-is-near-macintosh-pact.html |work=The New Yotk Times |agency=Associated Press |date=1991-02-16 |access-date=2023-08-26 |ref=none |archive-date=2023-08-26  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230826071243/https://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/16/business/company-news-sony-is-near-macintosh-pact.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=COMPANY NEWS; SONY WILL SUPPLY NOTEBOOK COMPUTERS TO DELL |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/22/business/company-news-sony-will-supply-notebook-computers-to-dell.html |work=The New Yotk Times |agency=Associated Press |date=1993-12-22 |access-date=2023-08-26 |ref=none |archive-date=2023-08-26  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230826071244/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/22/business/company-news-sony-will-supply-notebook-computers-to-dell.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The [[Raspberry Pi Foundation]] delegates the manufacture of its [[single-board computer]]s to Sony. Most [[Raspberry Pi]] computers are made at Sony UK Technology Centre in [[Pencoed]], Wales, UK.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/raspberrypi |title=The life of Pi: Ten years of Raspberry Pi. The most successful computer ever to come out of the UK celebrates its tenth anniversary this year. |author=Sarah Collins |date=2022-02-28 |website= |publisher=University of Cambridge |access-date= |quote= |archive-date=2023-11-03  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231103125048/https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/raspberrypi |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite AV media |people=Raspberry Pi |date=2023-07-23 |title=Tour the Raspberry Pi factory in Wales, UK |trans-title= |type= |language= |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2f3qkK5eKo |access-date=2023-08-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230826071244/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2f3qkK5eKo |archive-date=2023-08-26  |format= |time= |location= |publisher= |via=YouTube |id= |isbn= |oclc= |quote= |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite AV media |people=Jeff Geerling |date=2023-06-08 |title=How Raspberry Pis are made (Factory Tour) |trans-title= |type= |language= |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2C4lbbIH0c |access-date=2023-08-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230826071244/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2C4lbbIH0c |archive-date=2023-08-26  |format= |time= |location= |publisher= |via=YouTube |id= |isbn= |oclc= |quote= |url-status=live }}</ref>