The Factory Responsible For Wii U eDram Set To Close Within 2-3 Years

[Egann]

Seece said:

Egann said:
I don't see how this will even affect the Wii U. Two years until closing? That's probably almost as long as Nintendo took to design the thing: that's plenty of time for Nintendo to negotiate with another company to replace them.

Nice for the advance warning, though.

"Nintendo could try to contract another company to produce the component, but there are circumstances that make it difficult. According to a Renesas executive the production of that semiconductor was the result of the “secret sauce” and state-of-the-art know-how part of the NEC heritage of the Tsuruoka plant, making production elsewhere difficult. In order to restart mass production in a different factory redesigning the component may be necessary."

Obviously not. The original link's been updated with a link from Gaf. Apparently Nintendo's already found/ restructured a replacement.