At NVidia's level, nearly so. They ship on the order of 50 million desktop GPUs each year. Legal hours, real estate, or translators may seem expensive, but wh

At NVidia's level, nearly so. They ship on the order of 50 million desktop GPUs each year. Legal hours, real estate, or translators may seem expensive, but when you count the number of graphics cards that would be required to pay for them it's not even in the ballpark of 50 million. The warranties do cost something because they add significant risk/cost against each incremental unit, I will grant you that. Regulations like these have a disproportionate effect relative to volume. NVidia would probably have most of those things even in the absence of the regulations, a couple guys in a garage would certainly not.