Cell is dead. There were a few similar machines -- Intel IXP comes to mind. They were universally difficult to program and did not provide a significant perform

Cell is dead. There were a few similar machines -- Intel IXP comes to mind. They were universally difficult to program and did not provide a significant performance advantage once multicore x86 became cheap. ARM chips took the many-independent-cores end of the market, GPUs took the wide-SIMD end, and may history show that the Cell approach was a failure.