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Re:Nvidia CEO Introduces Nvidia Ampere Architecture, Nvidia ... by lumost on Friday May 15, 2020 @09:57AM (#23192213)
This is a good callout, unlike manufacturing the supply chain is almost universally vertically integrated for large software projects. While it's possible to make a kit car that at least some people would buy, most of the big tech companies have reached the point of requiring hundreds of engineers for years to compete.

Caveat that time has shown that the monopolies tend to decay over time for various reasons, the tech world is littered with companies that grew too confident in their monopoly.

- Cisco - Microsoft Windows - IBM

etc.

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Re:Nvidia CEO Introduces Nvidia Ampere Architecture, Nvidia ... by fluffything on Monday May 18, 2020 @05:14AM (#23220147)
The problem with vertically integrated technology is that if a huge advancement appears at the lowest level of the stack that would require a whole re-implementation of the whole stack, a new startup building things from scratch can overthrown a large competitor that would need to "throw" their stack away, or evolve it without breaking backward compatibility, etc.

Once you have put a lot of money into a product, it is very hard to start a new one from scratch and let the old one die.

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