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Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard by zymhan on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @10:30AM (#29980602)
Those are very much a commodity.
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Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard by reducesuffering on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @12:39PM (#29982690)
Nvidia and AMD, of $650B and $160B market caps, make commodities?!
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Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard by zymhan on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @12:46PM (#29982801)
I'm not sure what market cap has to do with it? BHP Billiton is an _actual_ commodity (mining) company with a market cap similar to AMD [1]

GPUs aren't commodities in the traditional sense, it's more of a figure of speech to convey how interchangeable and standardized GPUs are nowadays.

[1] https://www.google.com/finance/quote/BHP:NYSE

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Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard by bregma on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @04:58PM (#29986581)
Consumer game hardware is small potatoes in the revenue stream of those companies. They might be important to the game-playing consumer, but they're regarded as commodities by industry.
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