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Monopolies are not illegal per se. Misusing monopoly power is illegal. Nvidia has monopoly in the market, but unless they use their position illeagally, that'
by nabla9 3y ago
Monopolies are not illegal per se.
Misusing monopoly power is illegal.
Nvidia has monopoly in the market, but unless they use their position illeagally, that's OK. GPU market is competitive and Nvidia has put in the work others like AMD or Intel never bothered to do.
- cdchn 3y agoThis is it. Having a monopoly is OK. Being anticompetitive is when you run into trouble, even potentially without a monopoly.
- lumost 3y agoLikely part of the move to merge their drivers into the linux kernel etc.
- elefanten 3y agoWhile this has mostly held, there’s a big push to redefine anti-trust. That’s what the MSFT-Activision case was actually about beneath the surface narrative. The challenger jurisprudence lost, but it got pretty close and has lots of political support. (see: Lina Khan’s management of the FTC, or “New Brandeis movement”)
- nabla9 3y agoThe push is not to make monopoly (defined as market share) illeagal. Lina Khan and others are fighting good fight against misuse of monopoly powers, two sided markets, anticompetitive effects of platform-based business models and so on. GPU market is not natural monopoly, nor is the market structured as monopoly. Nvidia just has a competitive advantage.
- thomastjeffery 3y agoLegal? Sure. OK? I sincerely disagree.
- pests 3y agoWhat about Alcoa?