Viper1 on 13 November 2012
IBM released the PowerXCell 8i in 2008. The one and only upgrade (aside from die shrinks) to the Cell Broadband Engine.
The Cell is simply too difficult to work with, isn't well suited for general purpose use and has already been greatly surpassed in the fields it was designed for.
Don't forget that the Xbox 360 CPU, Xenon, is actually based on the Cell itself.
To really nail the coffin down, the facility that Sony obtained from Toshiba that developed the Cell has largely been converted to a camera CMOS manufacturing facility.
The rEVOLution is not being televised
