There are rumours that Apple considered the Cell as a PowerPC replacement in the event that Intel for some reason Intel turned them down: From what I remember the original plan was that the SPUs would do the work of a GPU, making the Cell an early system-on-a-chip, but it was overkill for televisions and underpowered for a games console, so the end result was that the PS3 ended up with a discrete GPU plus a bunch of SPUs that sat idle most of the time because developers found it hard to exploit them, breathe in. The Cell itself combined a PowerPC core with a bunch of eight "synergistic processing units", although one was disabled as a yield-improving measure and one ran the PS3's main menu. It took ages for games developers to start pushing the Cell, albeit that on the positive side the system aged well (it had a terrible first few years but then seemed to go up a notch circa 2010 or so). Sony just seemed to dump it on the market and say "there you go" instead of coming up with a development framework that would compile code to exploit the Cell's strengths. That was the key problem with the Cell in general.
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The early versions of the PlayStation 3 officially supported a version of Linux, but sadly Sony removed that option with a firmware update around 2010 or so.
I remember reading about the Cell back when the PlayStation 3 came out Sony and Toshiba had high hopes for it. It's hard to value because it's so esoteric.
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