Why doesn't Nvidia have more competition? (www.marketplace.org)

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[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 11 points 1 week ago

Nvidia did have competition 25 years ago, but it also had a culture of winning at all costs. Where people tried to build in openness and objectivity into the graphics industry, Nvidia worked to turn it to their benefit.

If a standard didn't benefit them, they made an alternative and then pressured it's use in the industry. If a benchmark didn't show them in a good light they'd "optimise" it in a way that would corrupt what it was trying measure. So often there was the open way of doing something and the Nvidia way, and Nvidia would use its market position to make sure people used the Nvidia way. This normally left the competition at least a generation behind.

From day one they've had an anticompetitive nature and if Radeon hadn't become part of AMD, Nvidia would have no competition. ATI died and only becoming part of a company with other product lines saved Radeon. If the FTC was still anything to be reckoned with, Nvidia would have been split up a long time ago.

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