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Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by nutjob2 on Saturday November 14, 2026 @12:27AM (#50494278)
Yup, they've been sleezebags all along. Nvidia has always treated their software as a tool to nobble the competition.

They're just another rank monopolist. We should celebrate their fall, maybe there will be room for some real competition.

Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by diabllicseagull on Saturday November 14, 2026 @12:55AM (#50494414)
I always thought that Nvidia's presence in the Khronos Group was a farce. On one hand they were vendor-locking as much as possible at the expense of the industry, and on the other they were "contributing" to the open languages and protocols.
Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by cowlevel on Saturday November 14, 2026 @01:17AM (#50494519)
Dirty secret of "open" source: it's a strategic collaboration between big vendors. It's very rarely someone's hobby project. Almost all Linux changes come from hardware vendors.
Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by gizajob on Saturday November 14, 2026 @01:58AM (#50494706)
That isn’t dirty or secret.
Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by saturn8601 on Saturday November 14, 2026 @01:07AM (#50494472)
>We should celebrate their fall, maybe there will be room for some real competition.

How are you going to get more competition when the entry cost is so high? The only competition will be the Chinese willing to dump endless cash into this but they are not doing it out of the goodness of their hearts either and it will still take years. If NVIDIA starts to falter then in the short term things will get even more painful for consumers as AMD becomes the new crummy company people love to hate.

Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by AnthonyMouse on Saturday November 14, 2026 @02:27AM (#50494848)
What you need is for the interfaces people use to not be vendor-locked. At which point Nvidia doesn't have to "fail" in the sense of going out of business, but rather just have the ecosystem switch to APIs that are supported by not just them but also AMD, Intel, Apple, Qualcomm, etc.

At which point customers are buying for hardware price/performance or performance/watt rather than because they care which vendor they're getting it from.

And then you'd still have the biggest companies making the highest performance hardware, but you could also get something from the RISC-V people which had e.g. half or a quarter the performance of the enterprise GPUs but the same amount of VRAM, for less money.

Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by nutjob2 on Saturday November 14, 2026 @04:16AM (#50495412)
This is the sort of self defeating mentality that creates evil monopolies. I used to read gamers berate AMD for their "driver problems" when their drivers simply couldn't emulate Nvidia's intentional tricks to force game developers to build for NV cards. And then they would moan when card prices skyrocketed. Don't know why you think AMD is "crummy" their greatest sin is that they didn't play these anti-competetive games and were screwed by other companies.

People seemed to be programmed to be sycophants or at least willing victims to rich and powerful people and companies, even as they royally screw them and empty their pockets. I never understood it. As the song goes: we'd make great pets.

The barriers to entry are not capital costs they are compatibility moats. Wake up and smell the coffee.