> Comparing Xenon to Cell B.E. (and then that processor's recently cancelled sucessors)

While PowerXCell 8i's successors PowerXCell 32ii (2 PPEs + 32 SPEs) and PowerXCell 32iv (4 PPEs + 32 SPEs) were indeed officially cancelled a year ago it's apparently not over yet:

https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=6768&forum=3&start=35

> it makes you wonder what IBM could create given the die sizes
> used by Intel or AMD.

Things like that:

https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=7001&forum=3&start=431

...and probably also even better things :-)