Asus has pulled the plug on its line of tablets running Windows RT because they just aren't selling, CEO Jerry Shen told The Wall Street Journal on Friday.
"It's not only our opinion, the industry sentiment is also that Windows RT has not been successful," Shen was quoted as saying by the newspaper.
It's another blow for Microsoft's first ARM-optimized mobile device platform, which the software giant introduced last year and which runs on Redmond's own Surface RT tablet.
Asus Pulls the Plug on Windows RT Tablets
Microsoft slashed prices for the Surface RT last month due to an inability to move units and wound up taking a $900 million "inventory adjustment" charge associated with the Surface RT in its last fiscal quarter.
It turns out that Asus was also dinged in the pocketbook by its own Windows RT tablet, the VivoTab RT, taking a second-quarter writedown associated with the product for an unspecified amount, according to the Journal.
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