When the DoE claimed the PS3 could be a dual purpose munition, they weren’t kidding.

Saddam Hussein did try to buy a load of PlayStations at some point.

He also had WMDs. /s

And Anna Nicole married for love

(Great line in the movie Shooter"

They were more or less cousins, as they were both based on the PowerPC CPU architecture.

However the Sony Cell had just a PowerPC controlling core. The real magic, and why it was used in supercomputers at the time, is in its Stream cores; they were highly tailored for vector and floating point maths.