ASUS considering closing divisions responsible for LCDs, Eee Stick?
ASUS has seen its share of restructuring over the years , and it looks like it could be about to go through another fairly significant shake-up — at least if some of the leads DigiTimes has picked up actually pan out. The first (and seemingly more likely) of those is that the company is supposedly considering shutting down its division that builds “opto-mechatronics products” like the Eee Stick , which itself was formed from the remnants of the company’s old optical drive department, and has reportedly already seen its size shrink from one…

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