ASUS 'reorganizing its loss-making' tablet business

ASUS is making some big changes to its tablet business.

@anthony256

Published Dec 29, 2016 2:15 AM CST
Updated Nov 3, 2020 12:57 PM CST

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ASUS has been releasing weird and at times very wonderful tablets over the years, but the company hasn't been making profits on them, so starting in the first half of 2016 the company began restructuring its tablet business.

ASUS 'reorganizing its loss-making' tablet business | TweakTown.com

DigiTimes reports: "Asustek started reorganizing its tablet business in the first half of 2016 and has greatly reduced the number of its new tablet projects as well as tablet shipments in 2016. Since Asustek still has a few hundred R&D and sales staff in its tablet department, Asustek has been trying to relocate them to new businesses such as virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) and smartphone and the process is expected to be completed by the end of first-half 2017".

This leads me to be wondering what ASUS will do about tablets at CES 2017 next week, and whether we might see a shift away from slates by ASUS.

NEWS SOURCE:digitimes.com

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