AMD's Fred Weber - Cell too far ahead of its time

Anandtech interviewed AMD’s CTO Fred Weber. As follows is a snippet about Cell:

Ever since its official introduction, we've (Anandtech) been going around asking everyone we ran into about their thoughts on IBM/Sony/Toshiba's Cell microprocessor, and Fred Weber was no different. Surprisingly enough, Weber's response to the Cell question was quite similar to Justin Rattner's take on Cell. Weber saw two problems with Cell:
1. Cell is too far ahead of its time in terms of manufacturing, and
2. Cell is a bit too heterogeneous in its programming model, referring to Cell's approach as both asymmetric and heterogeneous (we'll explain this in a bit).

Read the article by Author: Anand Lal Shimpi here.