The AI boom is coming for Switch cartridges, as a key chip supplier quits making ROM
Macronix makes more money on flash memory for data centers
The big picture: Memory makers have spent most of this year steering their factories toward AI data centers, a shift that is reportedly impacting the chips inside Nintendo Switch game cartridges. Taiwanese chipmaker Macronix is one of the main suppliers of the ROM in those cards. It's now winding down that business to make more flash memory instead. That said, Nintendo likely won't run short of cartridges anytime soon.
Lenovo-branded retro handheld comes pre-loaded with tons of Nintendo ROMs
The white-label product is likely illegal, but Lenovo still approved the marketing move
390TB game archive Myrient to shut down as storage costs surge
The site's operator is losing about $6,000 each month
Streamer faces $7.5 million lawsuit from Nintendo over alleged piracy, leaking unreleased games
Jesse Keighin taunted Nintendo with defiant responses to legal actions
RomUniverse owner previously fined $2.1M, now ordered to destroy pirated Nintendo content
Court order in Nintendo lawsuit delivers knockout punch to former RomUniverse owner
ROM site owner owes Nintendo $2.15 million after representing himself in piracy lawsuit
Probably not the best move
Nintendo hits another ROM site with a copyright infringement lawsuit
Damages could reach into the hundreds of millions of dollars
18-year-old retro gaming ROM site EmuParadise effectively closes its doors
It's the end of an era - sort of
Nintendo hits popular ROM sites with copyright infringement lawsuit
Theoretical damages could reach $100 million
