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ironmanDX on 24 April 2016
pokoko said:
This is like saying Mercedes is in trouble because Toyota sells a ton of Corollas.

Nvidia dominates the high-end market, which, unsurprisingly, is where the money is at.

All those corolla's helped pay for launching Lexus. 



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fatslob-:O on 24 April 2016

If AMD can take over DX12 it won't be too soon that they get majority share in high end GPU market ...



pokoko on 24 April 2016
ironmanDX said:
pokoko said:
This is like saying Mercedes is in trouble because Toyota sells a ton of Corollas.

Nvidia dominates the high-end market, which, unsurprisingly, is where the money is at.

All those corolla's helped pay for launching Lexus. 

And that means Mercedes is doing poorly?



ironmanDX on 24 April 2016
pokoko said:
ironmanDX said:

All those corolla's helped pay for launching Lexus. 

And that means Mercedes is doing poorly?

Lol of course not. It means competition was allowed to live. 



Conina on 24 April 2016
ironmanDX said:
Yes. AMD were all but dead from what I understood. Now, they have multiple massive money making contracts.

"Massive money making" contracts? I doubt that console APUs have a good profit margin.



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Alby_da_Wolf on 24 April 2016

They managed to outsmart MS with a one-sided contract for the original XBox. Really an outstanding achievement, but also so devilish that no console maker will ever dare to trust them anymore. Surely not MS, but the others two won't take the risk either.
But actually not a true loss for NVidia business style, they really prefer a high profit and profit margin on each cheap above all, and they produce low end ones just to complete their range of products and gather some more money, but like Apple, they always take the maximum care possible to prevent the low end from cannibalising higher end, more profitable products.
Surely Intel made a far bigger mistake entering the mobile market late.



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fatslob-:O on 24 April 2016
Alby_da_Wolf said:
They managed to outsmart MS with a one-sided contract for the original XBox. Really an outstanding achievement, but also so devilish that no console maker will ever dare to trust them anymore. Surely not MS, but the others two won't take the risk either.
But actually not a true loss for NVidia business style, they really prefer a high profit and profit margin on each cheap above all, and they produce low end ones just to complete their range of products and gather some more money, but like Apple, they always take the maximum care possible to prevent the low end from cannibalising higher end, more profitable products.
Surely Intel made a far bigger mistake entering the mobile market late.

Intel practically never had a chance in the mobile market despite their transistor density advantage and the inherent differences in the ISA made it so ... 

Even if Intel had solved the clout from the previous x86 architecture design and made parts that were competitive in perf/watt the software ecosystem for ultra mobile x86 CPU based devices wouldn't have developed enough for it to take off on it's own ...