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Create shortage, crank prices, profit!
peak monopoly behaviour that should concern us all.
At least for gaming, given that we have AMD (and now to a little degree Intel), it's not really a monopoly. We do not depend on Nvidia. Unless we talk about the highest end off course, but that is not what the majority of players would buy anyway. Nvidia has a monopoly situation on the Ai datacenters, yes, but not on the gaming GPU side.
It depends on how rigorously you define monopoly, because in a less literal sense, they sure do exert a lot of control over the companies that build their hardware, and dictate the standards for their competitors ("What's the difference between an AMD GPU and an Nvidia one? About $50.")
Related: Nvidia is facing an antitrust probe from US regulators amid competitor complaints, report says