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I'm not as pessimistic. 3dfx and Matrox didn't look like easy to knock out opponents in the 90s and yet here we are. Markets are powerful incentive mechanisms.
by sabalaba 8y ago
I'm not as pessimistic. 3dfx and Matrox didn't look like easy to knock out opponents in the 90s and yet here we are. Markets are powerful incentive mechanisms.
"Slowly grinds the mill of the gods, but it grinds fine."
- throwaway2048 8y agoCosts to compete in the silicon business have inflated massively since that era, its perhaps 100 or even 1000 times more expensive to build stuff like fabs (although NVIDIA dosent own fabs), and design chips.
- jacksmith21006 8y agoBut this makes it so Google is not dependent on Nvidia. But also push Nvdia.
- zitterbewegung 8y agoI will also change my Cable provider to something other than Comcast because I hate their service. Oh wait they are the only provider in my area...
- ksec 8y ago>3dfx and Matrox didn't look like easy to knock out opponents in the 90s and yet here we are. Matrox didn't give much of a damn to 3D gaming, 3Dfx were bust doing all the wrong things. It was certainly not "easy", but don't seems hard or impossible either at the time.