Nintendo's Biggest Chip Manufacturer Officially Exits Business

As players continue to reel from Sony’s announcement that the company will stop producing physical discs for its games starting in 2028, fans of physical media have suffered another blow. It just got a lot harder for Nintendo to produce physical Switch game cartridges. According to David Gibson, a senior analyst at MST Financial, Nintendo’s main partner for making the ROM chips used for physical Switch 1 and 2 games is “phasing out” its partnership with the company. “Nintendo’s main memory chip maker is quitting the Switch business,” Gibson wrote on X about the Taiwanese semiconductor company Macronix.