Best option for consumers would be ~10 GPU design firms with ~10 semiconductors fabs all fighting for every minuscule fraction of gross margin percentage point.
I do recognize that there are legitimate barriers to entry and economies of scale factors at play. But that being said, the fact that the patents relevant to the Nvidia 3080 (released in 2020) will expire in ~2040 and the copyright for the last GeForce4 Ti 4600 (released in 2002) driver expire in ~2081 suggests that there are ways to improve competition.
This makes intel battle mage look like a folk hero at this point… one nvidia 5090 or ten battle mage b580s…
for now. Intel will immediately sky rocket their prices the moment they get close to market dominance.
AMD is the true hero IMo
None of them are true heroes.
Best option for consumers would be ~10 GPU design firms with ~10 semiconductors fabs all fighting for every minuscule fraction of gross margin percentage point.
I do recognize that there are legitimate barriers to entry and economies of scale factors at play. But that being said, the fact that the patents relevant to the Nvidia 3080 (released in 2020) will expire in ~2040 and the copyright for the last GeForce4 Ti 4600 (released in 2002) driver expire in ~2081 suggests that there are ways to improve competition.
AMD pulled the same shit with ryzen