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Re:Alphabet tops $100B quarterly revenue for first time, clo... by sjs382 on Thursday October 30, 2025 @09:16AM (#45759714)
While Google has their own chips, they don't really have the market power there to buy up bleeding-edge manufacturing capacity.

Apple on the other hand... (though they're behind in other regards)

Re:Alphabet tops $100B quarterly revenue for first time, clo... by wslh on Thursday October 30, 2025 @10:16AM (#45760266)
But they were just an example. They are many players arising. You can look at this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45746246 even <https://www.nextsilicon.com/> is not on that list.

I don't see a natural monopoly anymore.