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Both of them drive considerable (40%+) margins on their products and can afford to drive things closer to the wire. They could that - but the reason they comma

Both of them drive considerable (40%+) margins on their products and can afford to drive things closer to the wire. They could that - but the reason they command these margins is exactly because they don't do that. I think do something like for fairly some investment but producing products that would compete with Nvidia would require a significant percentage amount of capital for any company - those dealing with tens of billions of dollar chunks expect above commodity revenues.

smoldesu 3y ago
> those dealing with tens of billions of dollar chunks expect above commodity revenues. Then I guess we're back around to square 1 again. Is this fair, or anticompetitive behavior?
- joe_the_user 3y ago
  It's not like I like the situation. I wish things were like 90s with a lot of competition making sure individual end-consumers got most of the benefits of Moore's law. But, putting on my economist hat, not all market-structures naturally generate large-scale competition in the fashion of white box PC clones. Some market structures are naturally monopolies (energy), some are naturally oligopolies (automobiles) and some naturally have a dominant player plus marginal players arrayed around them. There's just no easy solution to this. That said, it's not like we don't GPUs of unprecedented power available at a variety of price levels.