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

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.