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A chat on subreddit /r/pcmasterrace
human
I mentioned this on another thread yesterday, but I feel like fab is a major contributor to this problem. Right now, it seems that everything starts at TSMC and one or two other companies; who together has maybe 8-10 factories that makes basically everyone's silicon in one way or another.

Going off Gamers Nexus' reporting, in the case of GPU's, if third party AIB's were to obey NVIDIA and AMD's price floors and still have a cooling solution that differentiates them from the reference cards, there would be a maximum of like $20 in profit per unit.

It's not a solution that solves today's problem, but the solution is either more fabs, more fab companies, or both. Because otherwise, companies like NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, and Apple are all at the mercy of the handful of factories that can actually produce what they need.
gpt
Intel getting serious when they're making their own fabs will be interesting