Good deduction.  Sony sold their headquarters in Berlin as well.  Does that mean they are closing SCEE? 

You have no idea what chips of the next playstation will run on.  It could be the cell, it could be an improved EE, it could be something else.  Your attempt to make it look like Sony is abandoning the Cell.  By the way, the "Megalomaniac venture (Emotion Engine/GS)" has sold 120 million and counting.

@ All

Basically:

Bottom line: SPUs are like most CPUs (Read NJ5)
Basics are pretty much the same. (Read NJ5)
Good data design decisions and smart code choices see benefits any platform
Good DMA pattern also means cache coherency. Better on every platform
Bad choices may work on some, but not others.
Xbox 360, PC, Wii, DS, PSP, whatever.

Rule 1: The SPU is not a co-processor!
Don't think of SPUs as hiding time “behind” a main PPU loop

Understanding the SPUs

What “clicked” with some Insomniacs about the SPUs:
“Everything is local”
“Think streams of data”
“Forget conventional OOP”
“Everything is a quadword”
“si intrinsics make things clearer”
“Local memory is really, really fast

Designing for the SPUs

The ultimate goal: Get everything on the SPUs.
Leave the PPU for shuffling stuff around.
Complex systems can go on the SPUs
Not just streaming systems
Used for any kind of task

Conclusion

It's not that complicated.
Good data and good design works well on the SPUs (and will work well anywhere)‏
Sometimes you can get away with bad design and bad data on other platforms
...for now. Bad design will not survive this generation.
Lots of opportunities for optimization.

But you do need to consider some things...

http://www.insomniacgames.com/tech/articles/0208/files/insomniac_spu_programming_gdc08.ppt

 i see marty have a good proof so .. one point to marty .

anyone have a proof against marty ?

*Shaking my head slowly*

Marty, you don't understand even what you're reading, do you?

The SPE's are not independent cores. When you see the word "independent" in relation to the SPE's it is in reference to the totality of the SPE's in that each is independent of each other.....not independent of the PPE itself.

Everytime you read that they "act" like an independent processor doesn't mean it "is" an independent processor. They share similar characteristics and functionality but they are not wholly independent nor are they separate cores.

The SPE's are sub-level co-processing units. Do I need to get a an IC engineer in here to explain it to you?

looks like people are starting to get banned for their input.

My 2 cents: we really can't tell which one is really better until the end of each respective console's lifespan.

"The PPE, which is capable of running a conventional operating system, has control over the SPEs and can start, stop, interrupt, and schedule processes running on the SPEs. To this end the PPE has additional instructions relating to control of the SPEs. Unlike SPEs, the PPE can read and write the main memory and the local memories of SPEs through the standard load/store instructions. Despite having Turing complete architectures, the SPEs are not fully autonomous and require the PPE to prime them before they can do any useful work."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_microprocessor

Do you guys have this argument everyday? It seems to be the same people too. We should just have a big hardware of the consoles thread where you guys could argue until the end of time about which is better.

i want to go to eat now and when i come back i hope i will see a conslution for this.

For something that was designed to BREAK THE WINTEL MONOPOLY(Kutaragi`s words not mine) that is a pretty collosal failure.