According to the last news and tidbits, IBM might have decided to stop the development of its Cell CPU, a program initiated with Toshiba. If it is now present in servers and soon in TV, it became famous for being the CPU powering the Sony game station PS3, where it delivers amazing results. It remains unclear what could have pushed IBM to stop improving this CPU. It could be linked to the limited market and the specific and difficult to learn SDK. However, fans of the PS3 should not worry too much, as the development does not imply production and IBM will keep producing the CPU till the end of the life cycle of the PS3. It will then be possible that GPGPU would be the system selected for the entire 3D rendering and all tasks, making a single and powerful graphic card the main component of the future game stations.
