Rainbird on 30 May 2011
Well, makes sense for backwards compatibility and hopefully lowered costs as much of the basework has been done already. Developers are fairly used to the Cell by now, so it shouldn't be much of an issue in the development community, especially not if all their tools can carry over.
I hope Sony work on the bandwidth though. Memory and transfering of data is still the greatest bottleneck in computer hardware, and it's not better if you have to transfer between all the SPUs too. Sony should definitely try to create hardware that deals with memory management better, that would make me a happy software engineer. 
