NEC kills off PC sales
Nibble
July is the last month
Monday, 30 March 2009, 11:09
NEC HAS announced that it will stop selling PCs by July.
Currently the outfit only flogs them in Japan and the rest of Asia and pulling out of this market means the end of the loss making operation.
Ironically NEC has the top PC market share in Japan and sells about one-sixth of its annual global sales of three million PCs outside Japan. µ
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Thank Dog. What junk they were. I don't know how their sales are measured but after they lost their illegal monopoly here in Japan in the 90's they progressively disappeared from view. Haven't seen one for about 2 years. Probably had some boondoggle contract with the Japanese government to keep their sales up. Next target is Acer... and their wierd and often failing hardware.
NEC is like IBM. They are expensive and conservatively styled, but well-built and with very good support.　Not too surprising then that they lose money and decide to exit the consumer market. I think I may pick up that pink Lavie Light netbook after all, it may have collectors value!