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It was definitely another poster.

The fact that the SPEs can't directly address main memory precludes "simple" multithreading.  You can't just spawn a thread for something, you have to think carefully about how the threads will use data.  This is, IMO, a strength of the design as compared to a simple multicore CPU such as the Xbox 360's.