A company raking in incredible profit is a pretty good sign they are not doing anything special to maintain a monopoly, they just made a really good product and everyone else sucks.
* they're taking action to prevent others from making other GPUs compatible with CUDA
* they're buying up foundry and packaging capacity
It's probably likely that there's execs at Nvidia who know these things are good for them and bad for their competitions and have explained it in some internal emails...
For those that don't remember, here's examples of what MSFT did:
1. Kickbacks to computer OEMs to prevent the installation of alternative OSes. Basically buying market share & preventing competition.
2. Embrace, extend, extinguish to take over standards protocols in favor of Microsoft-developed ones.
3. Unnecessarily integrating IE into the OS, making it the default browser, and giving it access to OS APIs to work and perform well that other browsers couldn't do.
4. Leverage their OS to maintain a monopoly in the office suite space and use the office suite to maintain a monopoly in the OS space.
> Some people say that Netscape is less stable, others that IE is less stable
Milking your customers to the max is the opposite of what you'd do to illegally maintain a monopoly.
But from what I’ve seen they haven’t really done anything anti-competitive. They seem like the same company as they were years ago: selling devices, software for the devices and support for the software.
Compare to the tech megacorps who have evolved via acquisition, data brokerage and enshittification and always seem to find new ways to pop up and make you roll your eyes.