> Your posts contained the first speculation about Power8 featuring SPEs
> that I'd seen, but it does look like this is going to happen.

There're dissenting opinions as well:

"IBM [...] hinted that in the future its commercial-grade Power chips would incorporate many of the functions of the Cell chips. This [...] could happen with Power7+ or Power8 chips -- or, more likely, not at all. It seems far more likely that IBM will now focus on hybrid CPU-GPU combinations for certain HPC customers"
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/28/ibm_kills_qs22_blade/