No one wants them
Fujitsu has
announced that it is ending production of hard disk drive (HDD) heads. It
will cost the outfit $56 million to stop making the gear because it invested
shedloads into a plant in Nagano city, northwest of Tokyo to make them.
Now
the factory will be adapted to make circuit boards and employees working in the
HDD head business will be moved to new jobs. Head production will cease at
the end of March but Fujitsu is chatting to several companies in a bid to try
and flog the business. Toshiba has said that it is interested.
Fujitsu has
been pulling the plug on a number of its loss making businesses in a bid to
focus on core growth areas. Gone are Fujitsu plasma televisions, for example,
which the company was the first in the world to sell.