Hitachi exits personal computers

[ryengineer]

Hitachi a Japanese company and the makers of Pirus PC's and VisionBooks has called it a day for personal computers.

Hitachi is pulling out of the sale of personal computers, saying it wants to focus on larger network systems for businesses instead.
Analysts said the move showed Hitachi had been struggling to compete in a PC market dominated by US firms Dell and Hewlett-Packard and China's Lenovo.

Hitachi said it was now scaling back PC production at its central Japan plant.

The electronics group had been Japan's eighth-largest PC maker, with its main PC brand being Prius.

"We want to develop new computers for use in the broadcasting industry, which is becoming more digitised," said a spokesman.

[gator]

Hitachi made PCs? That itself is news to me ... Thanks rye for the post.

[AlphaKilo470]

I've seen one Hitachi personal computer to date; it was a laptop.

Off topic FYI: About 1 3rd of the subway cars used by the Atlanta transit system (MARTA) were originally manufactured by Hitachi.

[snessiram]

I was thinking the exact same thing as gator...