Sony backing away from "The Cell"

[Shayne]

This week, Nikkei reports that Sony plans to cease participation in the Cell processor's future iterations. Along with partners IBM and Toshiba, Sony has been researching 32nm and 45nm successors to Cell processor, which is currently made using a 65nm process--an improvement from the the original 90nm process. Sony is currently in negotiations with IBM and Toshiba on the exact date and terms of the pullout, and the two reportedly plan to continue development on the chips.

Source http://www.gamespot.com/news/6182641.html?part=rss&tag=gs_news&subj=6182641

Let others do the work maybe?  Or a maybe it was a bad decision?  Microsoft and Nintendo seem to be doing pretty well on the rather antiquated PowerPC architecture.

[Tom]

Likely the former. They don't need their own fabs for a project that's loosing billions. I find it odd they haven't started using cell in more devices honestly.