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… Just goes to show what a decade of good vs bad execution will do to a near-monopoly situation. 2 I'm every grateful they got themselves out of the hole they were in and came back swinging massively in this space. …
… But I guess those are likely also going up in price, where TSMC had probably been waiting for the price to drop. 15 Canon and Nikon in Japan and SMEE in China, are investing billions on RND, from tax payer's money, so there is a hope that someday this callous monopoly of ASML will be challenged. …
… The way geopolitics are going patents will only protect you in domestic markets. 13 Hecate91 Only in some alternate fantasy world, in reality when there are only 2 main GPU companies the one with a near monopoly controls the market. …
… 4 BlindZenDriver Good. I am liking the Epic Store already and we need it to succeed else we will end up with a Steam monopoly. …
… I'm not even going to pen it down if it's less than 500 trillion dollars. 14 Literally just Monopoly Money at this point. …
… I do not go into electornic supermarket and check what is sold. …
… I keep some physical media around for those times when the internet goes out. 11 GodisanAtheist PC games were always the redheaded stepchild at any EB Games/Gamestop/Toys R' Us, usually relegated to some crappy trolly somewhere while the current console gen games got all the wall space. …
… 14 yfn ratchet God help us if the US becomes dependent on a geopolitical adversary's memory modules. looks at Taiwan/Korean quasi-monopoly of DRAM/HBM production oh yeah no, that would be horrible , let's hope that doesn't happen, right? …
… Steam and later GOG made downloading cracked games, possibly with malware, not popular anymore. We can complain about Steam all we want. In the end many people here go to GoG, Epic or Steam for their games. …
… The end goal is not that I win but that ferret face & friends lose. Of course Micron going bankrupt or at least ending up in shambles at the end of this AI bubble would be absolutely glorious and most deserved. …