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Costs to compete in the silicon business have inflated massively since that era, its perhaps 100 or even 1000 times more expensive to build stuff like fabs (although NVIDIA dosent own fabs), and design chips.

But this makes it so Google is not dependent on Nvidia. But also push Nvdia.

I will also change my Cable provider to something other than Comcast because I hate their service. Oh wait they are the only provider in my area...

>3dfx and Matrox didn't look like easy to knock out opponents in the 90s and yet here we are.

Matrox didn't give much of a damn to 3D gaming, 3Dfx were bust doing all the wrong things. It was certainly not "easy", but don't seems hard or impossible either at the time.