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Antitrust litigation for AMD and Nvidia

Not really sure why AMD is involved as the time frame is well before they took over ATI and before that they werent involved with discrete cards but its impossible to prove either way
 
Nvidia always lies about their cards, like the 7 series, they said it would support HD, but will not support HD DVD or Blue rays discs, 'cause they don't install a chip, oh, I forget they blame the board manufacturer.
Funny only in July of 2006 they really acknowledge that currents cards were compatible with the new HD technology.
Then they post like a guide with a disclaimer, come on is BS! :mad:
I had always Nvidia, but on my new computer will be ATI.
ATI was more specific, some cards box (x1800) don't even say HD, just AVIVO, but nothing about HD, and when they display HD support were compliant with htpc protection code for HD.
 
Remember Gibbo saying his supplier for the X1900 XTX & XT wasn't happy with him selling the cards so cheap ?


This kinda backs up the enquirers story imo ;)
 
I'm rather tempted to just say "duh" to the whole story, Nvidia and ATI involved in price-setting behaviour, shock horror. Of course prices are set as they are, it is a classic marketing strategy to introduce at 'skim-pricing' levels to attempt to recoup some of the development costs and then lower the prices as you can a) meet demand and b) the high end market approaches saturation. So it is a collusion (albeit probably an unspoken one), it would make no sense for either of the companies to do otherwise, if you can't drive your competitor out of business by lowering the prices (and possibly having a better product) then why cut your own throat over the prices, you just make as much money as possible and even if one of them was in a position to drive the other out of business then they would again fall foul of the anti-monopoly legislation as they would be the dominant player in the market and could again set prices.

The only vaguely interesting parts of the story are that a) it is being entertained and b) that it confirms my long held thoughts that prices on parts are always relatively the same, now if only I could get some other folks to recognise that then I'd be happy so I don't need to have the argument again. :)
 
I think the real issue is over market control, AMD and NVIDIA are accused of fixing prices and most likely fixing the power of there cards.

Have you not wondered why two competing powers year on year produce cards that have almost identical processing power to there competitors.

I would imagine that the prices are fixed and the actual power of the gpu's is pre-decided by NVIDIA and AMD/ATI before they start creating there next generation cards. Remember the RAM price fixing not so long ago, this is the same sort of thing.

What does this mean for the consumer you get an over priced and controlled market, where there is actually more of a secret alliance between cards manufacturers than a competitive market.
 
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