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by zhemao 4577 days ago
You're mostly right

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3#Technical_specif...

The cell processor had a main PowerPC core and eight floating-point SIMD co-processors called synergistic processing elements (SPE). For the PS3, one of the eight SPEs was disabled and another was reserved for the operating system, leaving the other six for developers.