captain carot on 24 November 2015
Sony could have made money of Cell in their medical technology division. IBM tried or actually did, not sure right now.
In the end Cell was a big failure. To expensive for Toshiba in the long run while IBM had to do a ton of changes for PowerXcell. And the overall design was totally outdated within a few years.
Today you'd go with a GPGPU for anything the SPE's where meant to do.
That's also the reason why it wouldn't have made sense to put Cell into the PS4 at all. It's terribly slow in some ways and where it was fast you don't need it anymore.
With Sony adding the dedicated GPU late in development, all the systems issues and what MS actually did with the 360 the latter one actually is the more sophisticated design.
