> the Cell (if you ignored the SPE's) should run the same PPC code.

Yes, it definitely does. The Cell PPE runs stock PPC code as well as AltiVec code. But Cell is the only PPC that runs Cell SPE code. That's the point Zylesea was trying to make.

> we may have some variants in our future anyway if the developers ever
> decide to tackle SMP.

Assuming an SMP capable MorphOS, single-threaded software would run fine on multi-core hardware (using only one of the cores) as well as multi-threaded software would run fine on single-core hardware (running the threads virtually concurrently via preemptive multitasking). There're no code variants required for that.

> Cell and Power8 technology? Damn Andreas, that sounds far too optimistic.
> (although the though gave me a cold chill). Then I think back on your track
> record of predictions so far...

Not so much about my predictions so far, but I just wouldn't know how to interpret that IBM executive's words in any other way.

> let's find someone with deep pockets build something with this

That would have to wait some while still because I predict that POWER8 won't come before 2012 ;-)

> take back PC from those nimrods at Intel.

I doubt POWER8 will be suitable for PC. There would have to be something to POWER8 like G5/PPC970 was to POWER4.