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Nintendo ROM chip supplier Macronix quits to focus on chips for AI data centers, reports indicate

Macronix, one of Nintendo's ROM chip manufacturers, is shutting down the business to reallocate manufacturing for NOR and NAND flash chips that the AI industry demands.

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All three outlets frame the story around Nintendo’s chip supplier Macronix leaving the ROM business, but they do so with different emphases. Tom’s Hardware is the only one to say Macronix is redirecting capacity toward NOR and NAND flash chips for AI data centers, while Engadget foregrounds the Switch cartridge angle and adds a brief note about physical media. Ars Technica alone frames the development as a possible issue for physical Switch game costs.

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