Indeed, the market as a whole would be affected. But is not NVIDIA more of a software company than a hardware one? This bugs the shit out of me.

They are maintaining this astronomical growth through data centers margins from the design of their chips and all of that started from graphics related to video games.

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coffeebeqn 12 hours ago | parent [-]

> But is not NVIDIA more of a software company than a hardware one?

No? That’s why they have almost no competition. Hardware starting costs are astronomical

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weslleyskah 12 hours ago | parent [-]

But the actual manufacturing foundry is TSMC no? And they create the whole software environment based on their chips.

	▲	mr_toad 9 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Apple doesn’t make hardware either, but they make a lot of money selling it.
	▲	immibis 10 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It costs eight figures to create the masks (patterns) to use in the process of creating a modern chip. Just because it doesn't cost the eleven figures of the factory itself doesn't make it cheap.