Fujitsu is closing its BU Client Computing Devices operations in Europe and will no longer sell PCs, notebooks, workstations and peripherals after April 2024.
The fact that the PC market tanked means is Fujitsu has had enough and is walking away.
Its PC business including peripherals, will be discontinued in Europe from next April, in favour of servers, datacentre technologies, hybrid cloud infrastructure, and data-driven platform services.
Fujitsu has confirmed that maintenance contracts will be fulfilled, and spare parts for clients should still be available five years after the end of operations in April 2024.
There is no timetable for its withdrawal from the PC segment, or any indication as to the number of employees that might face redundancy.
The company had already made cuts in Europe. PC production in Augsburg, Germany, ceased in 2020.
Fujitsu was one of a handful of international PC manufacturers to manufacture in Europe. The plant in Augsburg had been maintained by Fujitsu for a significant time, but in view of years of downturn in the PC market it became inviable.
The company’s distribution partners anticipated the move away from client hardware.
The largest Fujitsu distributor in Europe, Bytec, added products from Lenovo into its portfolio two years prior to the closure.
