Report: Microsoft’s Surface Hub 3 is Being Discontinued With No Successor in Sight

Microsoft has reportedly stopped manufacturing its 50-inch and 85-inch Surface Hub 3 digital whiteboards, which the company launched in the fall of 2023. According to Windows Central’s Zac Bowden, Microsoft has “scrapped any plans to deliver a Surface Hub 4 in the future,” so it will soon be the end of the line for the commercial devices, which start at $9,499 for the 55-inch model.

“I’m told that although production has ended, Microsoft and third-party retailers still have stock available to sell through, but once that’s gone, that will be the end of it,” Bowden wrote. All Surface Hub 3 models, which run Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows, will be supported with firmware and driver updates until December 2030.

Microsoft’s Surface Hub 3 uses the same display as the previous Surface Hub 2S released in 2019, but it comes with a removable cartridge that brings a 60% CPU performance increase and a 160% GPU performance increase over its predecessor. The 50-inch model also supports a new Smart Rotation feature and Intelligent Audio, which also worked on Surface Hub 2S devices upgraded with a Surface Hub 3 Compute Cartridge.

Microsoft designed the Surface Hub line for enterprise collaboration, with large displays supporting multi-touch and multi-pen capabilities. However, Microsoft was targeting a niche market with its expensive digital whiteboards (the 85” Surface Hub 3 is priced at $22,999), and Microsoft has clearly streamlined its Surface business following the departure of Panos Panay to Amazon. The company discontinued its all-in-one Surface Studio line in 2024, and its Surface Laptop Studio 2-in-1 laptop suffered the same fate last year.