• empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      19 hours ago

      AMD is a puppydog that follows Nvidia around on the open market with 10% or less market share. If Nvidia constricts supply and causes a massive price jump and shortages, AMD will just follow the pricing curve and we will still get no GPU’s.

      AMD is also 100% reliant on TSMC and VRAM suppliers, the same exact supply pressures causing Nvidia to turn off the consumer tap will come for AMD too.

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        11 hours ago

        If this is about supply pressures, it’s not Nvidia acting as a cartel, is it?

        AMD has, as far as I understand, been outcompeting Nvidia on value for a good while. If this is Nvidia just being anti-consumer, I’d expect that to continue

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      15 hours ago

      When their only competition just hiked prices, why would they keep theirs low? That’s free money.

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        11 hours ago

        They’ll still undercut, just as they are doing.

        I just don’t think moaning about the companies makes any sense. If you imagine the most utopian scenario you think of, with communal ownership of all production, how do you think the commune is going to allocate GPUs? It’s going to stick a load in hyped AI products and gamers will be last in line, just like now.