IBM kills off second-gen Cell blade server

Erm.... sales figures?

Despite the flowery send off from TPM, the reason IBM are canning the product is becasue they haven't sold enough to make it economically attractive enough to carry on production. Instead, they'll simply use generic cores on multi-core Power chips on standard J-series blades to do the job, though how well is debateable given that those Power cores are not going to be specialised in any way like those in a Cell arrangement. What should worry IBMers more is a little birdie tells me the driver is partly the not-so-brilliant sales figures for the Power-based J-series blades.