HACKER Q&A
📣 andrewstuart

Should the Department of Justice be investigating Nvidia's monopoly?


GPU prices remain crazy.

Initially the prices went up due to crypto mining.

But when the newest generation of GPUs came out, crypto mining had finished being viable, and yet prices remain eye wateringly high.

The suggestions is that Nvidia and AMD are doing this deliberately.

Nvidia pretty much owns the GPU market.

AMD has competitive cards, but seems unwilling to compete.

Intel unable to develop a card that competes anywhere except the lowest end.

So I wondered, is the monopolistic / anti competitive illegal activity in any of this?

Should the Department of Justice be investigating the GPU market?

  👤 t-3 Accepted Answer ✓
As you've already laid out, they don't have a monopoly (especially not when you consider non-x86, where discrete GPUs aren't really a thing). Honestly, I'd be more worried about the discrete GPU market disappearing altogether due to lack of volume from decline of *coin mining and PC sales than NVidia being too succesful. Especially as upgrading to be able to play the latest has become less and less necessary over time.
👤 wmf
But what specific illegal actions has Nvidia taken? It's hard to find a case here.