Nvidia Threatens to Become A Monopoly

[SickBeast]

Picao:

It's hard for me to reply to you because a lot of what you post seems contradictory.

E.G.

Because there is no competition on the CPU space, AT ALL? Intel has the x86 market monopoly for itself. You do not need to have a company holding 100% of the market to call it a monopoly.

So intel is "no competition" for AMD? I'd say intel is winning the competition with AMD rather handily, and as such, they define "competition". By what you have said, intel producing superior products "should" be driving AMD to produce better products, but it doesn't.

On the other hand, AMD presence as a competitor who has "won" at points in the past should theoretically make intel not sit on their laurels 100%.

You have competition, it's just not very potent competition on AMDs side.

Nonetheless, look at what you said:

intel has a monopoly.

OK if that's true, I'm all for monopolies. Love my Devils Canyon, it's the best cpu I ever purchased and it cost $300! My last CPU in that box, 990X, cost $1050.. Why isn't intel price gouging me with their monopoly?

As far as improvements by generation, guys like you crack me up. You just assume intel could and would come out with better parts "if only someone made them.". We have no idea what they are holding back. May be cpus that have 50X the power of current, may be 10% faster CPUs.

I do not believe invention can be forced. I work in the software industry and can tell you someone telling me they need the answer to a problem by day X does not mean much. If I don't think of it until day Y, or at all, no competition or request from my boss will change what happens. (and the things I work on are caveman primitive compared to intel engineers)

If you think these companies are "holding back to screw us" you should bring your better products to market. For the size of the market, I'm guessing you could find investors.

Rollo Intel dedicates more die area to their iGPU than they do to the CPU portion. It would be very simple for them to give us unlocked 8 core CPUs with no GPU for enthusiasts at the same price as the current K-series i5s. Why don't they do it? Because they are competing with themselves at this point. If AMD had something more powerful then Intel would be forced to do something like this.