Even just saying this applies downward pressure on pricing: NVIDIA has an enormous amount of market power (~"excess" profit) right now and there aren't enough near competitors to drive that down. The only thing that will work is their biggest _consumers_ investing, or threatening to invest, if their prices are too high.

Long term, I wonder if we're exiting the "platform compute" era, for want of a better term. By that I mean compute which can run more or less any operating system, software, etc. If everyone is siloed into their own vertically integrated hardware+operating system stack, the results will be awful for free software.