{"id":95590,"date":"2019-06-24T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/06\/taiwanese_memory_chip_supplier_reports_stronger_than_expected_demand_from_nintendo"},"modified":"2019-06-24T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T09:30:00","slug":"taiwanese-memory-chip-supplier-reports-stronger-than-expected-demand-from-nintendo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/06\/24\/taiwanese-memory-chip-supplier-reports-stronger-than-expected-demand-from-nintendo\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwanese Memory Chip Supplier Reports Stronger Than Expected Demand From Nintendo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/dfb12d27292ad\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/dfb12d27292ad\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Our mock-up of the rumoured Switch Mini\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/dfb12d27292ad\/our-mock-up-of-the-rumoured-switch-mini.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/dfb12d27292ad\/our-mock-up-of-the-rumoured-switch-mini.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Our mock-up of the rumoured Switch Mini\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\">Our mock-up of the rumoured Switch Mini<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>An awful lot has been said about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/02\/rumour_nikkei_suggests_smaller_and_more_affordable_switch_hardware_is_on_the_way\">Switch Mini<\/a> over the last few days &#8211; a rumoured revision to Nintendo&#8217;s hybrid console expected to be revealed this year &#8211; and this latest little nugget of information from a Taiwanese memory chip supplier only adds even more fuel to the ever-raging fire.<\/p>\n<p>Macronix &#8211; a memory manufacturer which supplies chips for the current Nintendo Switch model &#8211; has reported a stronger-than-expected demand from Nintendo, noting that it would fuel the company&#8217;s growth momentum throughout the second half of 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Macronix chairman Miin Wu has said that orders from Nintendo have &#8220;exceeded our expectations in the past two months&#8221;. The strong demand has reportedly helped boost Macronix\u2019s revenue to a point where it is now 30% up from where it was in April, something which Wu has described as &#8220;very unusual&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The sudden surge in demand suggests that Nintendo is ramping up the number of consoles being produced, and while that doesn&#8217;t prove the existence of a revised console, it certainly gives a little more weight to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/10\/rumour_new_nintendo_switch_sku_planned_for_late_2019\">reports<\/a> shared thus far.<\/p>\n<p>Last week saw two manufacturers &#8211; Chinese company HonSon and gaming retailer GAME &#8211; share <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/06\/is_this_our_first_real_look_at_nintendo_switch_mini_update_company_responds\">Switch Mini accessories<\/a> on their websites. Seemingly uploaded a little early, these accessories suggest that retailers are now discussing the Switch Mini behind the scenes &#8211; something which a source of Nintendo Life has since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/06\/switch_mini_rumours_escalate_as_spanish_arm_of_game_lists_accessories\">confirmed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Do you think it&#8217;s only a matter of time before Nintendo officially lifts the lid on this one? Still not convinced that a new machine is on the way? Whatever your opinion, feel free to share it with us below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our mock-up of the rumoured Switch Mini An awful lot has been said about the Switch Mini over the last few days &#8211; a rumoured revision to Nintendo&#8217;s hybrid console expected to be revealed this year &#8211; and this latest little nugget of information from a Taiwanese memory chip supplier only adds even more fuel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}