Comment by blibble

6 hours ago

> I keep hearing this and yet history has proved, time and again, that any overly greedy monopolist achieves the reverse effect of monopoly.

this is true in general

but the barrier to entry for gaming GPUs is massive (hundreds of billions)

intel have been working at it for close to a decade and now just about have a workable product, at the low end

Yes, I agree. But there are plenty of GPUs on the market still, and even more on the second-hand market as well.

By the time those are depleted we'll have a new player.