At least for gaming, given that we have AMD (and now to a little degree Intel), it’s not really a monopoly. We do not depend on Nvidia. Unless we talk about the highest end off course, but that is not what the majority of players would buy anyway. Nvidia has a monopoly situation on the Ai datacenters, yes, but not on the gaming GPU side.
It depends on how rigorously you define monopoly, because in a less literal sense, they sure do exert a lot of control over the companies that build their hardware, and dictate the standards for their competitors (“What’s the difference between an AMD GPU and an Nvidia one? About $50.”)
The “record sales overall” appears to include gaming GPUs too, so it may be a little early to say anything based on this.
I’m not big in finance but this sounds massive.
Massive to the point where normally every single investor should question it’s legitimacy.
Create shortage, crank prices, profit!
peak monopoly behaviour that should concern us all.
At least for gaming, given that we have AMD (and now to a little degree Intel), it’s not really a monopoly. We do not depend on Nvidia. Unless we talk about the highest end off course, but that is not what the majority of players would buy anyway. Nvidia has a monopoly situation on the Ai datacenters, yes, but not on the gaming GPU side.
It depends on how rigorously you define monopoly, because in a less literal sense, they sure do exert a lot of control over the companies that build their hardware, and dictate the standards for their competitors (“What’s the difference between an AMD GPU and an Nvidia one? About $50.”)
Related: Nvidia is facing an antitrust probe from US regulators amid competitor complaints, report says
So that’s what…7 flagship GPUs?