Nintendo's biggest ROM chip supplier is bowing out of the business

What happened

For years, the AI industry's insatiable demand for memory and storage has had plenty of knock-on effects on the price and availability of PC components like RAM, SSDs, and GPUs. Now those shortages are also squeezing the supply of ROM chips that power physical Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 game cartridges. Chip manufacturer Macronix announced in its third-quarter earnings report that the company's…