• interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml
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    6 hours ago

    It’s not explicable why AMD is not breaking rank on VRAM and vGPU, same reason as failing Intel.
    But the reason is not mentionnable in polite company and it relates to why AMD exists at all.
    By all accounts, AMD should have gone under decades ago, instead they’re one of the only x86 platform licensee and they got that basically because of a fluke in history.

    But here’s the real deal, because of the regulatory environment, monopolies are technically illegal. Of course since 1980s enforcement of that has been a total joke as proven with the failure of the Microsoft anti-trust case. Anti-trust is currently neutered and even back then it wasn’t really “anti-trust”, merely anti-monopoly. That is the playbook for Intel and Nvidia that allows AMD to continue existing. They exist so that the other two aren’t monopolies. They are kept alive as long, some market segments will have some competition and other will simply not be touched by Intel and AMD, dynamically decided, kind of like splitting territory, so that AMD can always survive.

    So that Intel and Nvidia don’t became actually illegal monopolies. This is a very conservative playbook as since the 90s they could have very well become monopolies and the neolibs wouldn’t have squeaked. They would have cheered !

    That’s why you’re not getting that actually threatening to Nvidia amounts of VRAM and vGPU from AMD and why they’re dropping support for their 2018 datacenter GPU if they get a little too much of a good deal on the used market.

    The solution is simple, destroy nvidia, not a calculated and gentle trust bust, no, break the company so it stops existing as a coherent entity.

    Nvidia is a bunch of software and PNGs on top of TSMC. Break Nvidia, break Intel, break microsoft, break cisco, broadcom, break everything in silicon valley and put it all in a blender. And if anything grows too big again, break it the duck up again.