There's no such thing as hard to find. Only "I don't want to pay what they ask". Which is weird for a hardware company since you don't need that many and you only write the driver once, but you sell it with millions of devices.
The main reasons of "monopoly" are long-term vision and enormous effort spent in software development. AMD is lacking behind because they have not yet seriously invested on their own software stack.
monopoly isn't a bad word here and doesn't need quotes. In America and major markets, a monopoly is fine if that's what the market chooses, anticompetitve practices and abusing market position is what gets at least put under scrutiny. They may be limited in purchasing additional companies to expand or maintain the market position, but there is no need to shift perception about what is it because that's not regulated or under threat of regulatory scrutiny simply from providing a better service.
Monopoly are fine if they are natural monopolies - e.g. utilities; which need to be regulated. Otherwise monopolies are suboptimal as prices won’t come down due to lack of competition.
No one buys any product that costs more than it is worth to them. If value is lower than cost sales tend to go to zero. The continued market for a product even in the midst of shortage indicates that someone somewhere values the product more than its market price. Otherwise the price would drop until demand converged with supply.
I think this is true when there is competition and/or the good/service is not a necessity. If my electric company decided to add a mandatory $100 fee then I'd be forced to pay it. It's also why the emergency room can charge so much- are you going to shop around if you are in the middle of having a heart attack?
Yeah, but we (consumers) don’t usually see full exploitation of that principle as a good thing. Like, when pharmaceutical companies charge exorbitant prices for lifesaving drugs just because they can, that’s bad.
Martin Shkreli wasn't convicted for manipulating medicine prices, just outrunning his shareholders.
We, the consumers, don't get a damn word about what we want. Unless the free market says it's a bad thing, you're stuck enjoying whatever the corps decide the fight-of-the-week is.
That’s … reductionist, any voter that attempts to find a representative for a non-party line cause gets gaslit by rapid partisans about hating women or a marginalized group because its not their top cause guiding all voting decisions.
voters dont have control of their representatives either way
No it's not reductionist, it's the truth. Reductionist would be different, for example if it implied that change is impossible, or that voters will always stay the same, or that there is a guaranteed inevitability, etc...
Maybe your reading your own thoughts into someone else?
If you genuinely believe voters have literally no control over their representatives in the US, I highly doubt you would spend time writing comments on HN about pharmaceutical pricing and not on more important matters.
Sure, but often the costs of high prices of inelastic goods are externalised. People excluded from housing, banking, energy, education, and health markets necessarily turn to various anti social activities which create costs for society… and those who are making real profits rarely end up picking up the bill for these.
Though I don’t believe this line of reasoning applies to CUDA/GPUs (yet).
Other than government mandates, I don’t pay for things that cost more than they’re worth to me. I just don’t buy them and I think most people have a similar approach.
People pretending to do professional work with low budget/quality workstation. If you cannot afford to operate a 4090 according to specs, you cannot blame NVIDIA if things go wrong.
Eh? What are you talking about? The part melting and damaging the card is the adapter that's literally provided by Nvidia. How is this "not according to spec"????
You blame CUDA because you have never played AMD + ROCm. Furthermore OpenCL is on dead-end street. With standard programming languages natively supporting CUDA, it has no sense to add extra layers.
The most powerful and unfortunately unusable supercomputer of the world. AMD's approach to GPUs is on a failing track since its inception. The only software stack available is super fragile, buggy and barely supported. Rather than building a HPL machine I would have preferred see public money spent in a different way.
It's a supercomputer. The programming model is very, very different. The software stack is full of incredibly fragile stuff from any number of manufacturers. It's honestly hard to even describe how much more difficult using MPI with Fortran on a supercomputer is compared to anything I've ever touched elsewhere. Maybe factory automation comes close?
1. As an undergraduate, join a research group that needs to run simulations on a supercomputer.
2. As a grad student, join a research group that works with supercomputers.
3. As a software engineer or IT person, join a research group at a university. They need people too, but fair warning: the pay is...subpar.
4. Join a national laboratory in some capacity. This route necessitates working for your country's government or military, which may or may not be palatable to you depending on how you feel about your gov't/military.
5. Join a giant multinational company that has supercomputers and uses them. Exxon is a good example. They have massive supercomputing power.
Unless you're an undergrad, I'm afraid all the ways I know of suck in some way or another. I did 1 & 3. As for the rest, I think 2 would make the most sense if you have BS, because you can go get a masters in a year or so while getting the experience.
This not completely correct because while a carrier transport anything indescrminately, social networks manipulate and control information exchange, for instance giving more priority to a content wrt to another.
