ConsoleUpdated November 4

Macronix says ROM production has reached its end.

Macronix says ROM production “has reached its end,” but its wider decoupling from the game industry will be gradual. The shift is about wafer space: ROM production fell 39% over the past year and represented 5% of the company’s business. Macronix says those less profitable chips take space that could earn more through in-demand NOR- and NAND-based memory and eMMCs. The company has capacity for 25,000 12-inch wafers a month, and its planned $1.2 billion expansion may take a year or more to spin up. What this means for Switch cartridge supply or prices is still unsettled.

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