Not only is this not the whole story, it's a fucking awful interpretation of the actual story. Turn the clock back 23 years to 1999 and the GPU market was expl

Not only is this not the whole story, it's a fucking awful interpretation of the actual story. Turn the clock back 23 years to 1999 and the GPU market was exploding, with tons of vendors, tons of chips, tons of competition, and excellent competing prices. What's changed since then? The same shit that Michael Crichton spent a 10 minute video on YouTube talking about in 1999... the consolidation of companies in all markets by ever-growing behemoths who swallow up all competition. There are what... three major chip foundries left, one of them is barely considered a "major" chip foundry (Global Foundries). The other two, Intel and TSMC, are so busy and booked up that they're running 24/7 nonstop to fill demand. This could never happen... would never happen... if we had a dozen different foundries all of similar technological prowess and size, and 1999 GPU markets are a clear indicator of that. Literally dozens of brands, using half a dozen or so different chips from companies like PowerVR, NVIDIA, ATI, 3Dfx, etc. GPUs aren't underpriced, our entire economic engine has become fouled by a lack of serious competition. Don't believe that? Go read an entire list of Disney's holdings. It's damn near unbelievable that our cowardly politicians haven't trust-busted the megacorps that are around today. It's so egregious that America's founders would probably drag their peers out into the street and shoot them themselves if they could see how corrupt the system's become.