It's certainly smaller than any American state, but for our population it's fairly big. The topology of the country also isn't very friendly to cell signals. 90+% of the country is mountainous/fjords. It's why coverage has been a big selling point, a bunch of people live on some random mountain side in the middle of nowhere.
From what I've heard, there isn't much competition in the US though, so I guess that plays a part. We got three companies independently building out their own network across the whole country.
That's wild. You got to be in a very remote place for that to ever happen here. Granted, there is a fair bit of competition between the three main telecom companies, and data coverage has been one of the biggest topics between them for over a decade.
Does the US have decent coverage? Over 85% of the land area in Norway is covered, 99,9% if we go by where people live, so you'll have coverage even deep into fjords or mountains up here.
There is no monopoly. If Nvidia doesn't play it right in the coming years they won't hold on to their current position. Nvidia aren't getting into custom chips just for fun. If the major cloud providers end up using their own custom silicon, that's a major blow for Nvidia.
If you think that would destroy nvidia you're selling them quite short. Other companies in the market are following that exact business model: Don't produce your own boards, actually document the hardware / have FLOSS drivers.
Nvidia not producing their own boards wouldn't solve anything but complicate matters for Nvidia. Ask Asus or EVGA what their margins are on their Nvidia GPUs. Nvidia opening their stack to the competition was the only half realistic suggestion.
but you come here and throw national interest into the mix.
Why do you think the whole 4090 D debacle happened? The US government have obvious interests in limiting the compute power China has access too. Nobody cares about their gaming GPUs, it's the ML chips that are making the waves, and those are of obvious national interest to the US government.
How the fuck would nvidia losing market share to AMD damage US national interest it would strengthen its standing by having independent options.
Brush that chip off your shoulder, not sure what's making you so angry. And why are you bringing AMD into the picture, they aren't even the biggest threat to Nvidia's ML hegemony. I was also specifically referring to how dismantling Nvidia would be counter productive to US interests, not Nvidia's market share.
It might even enable Intel to secure their foot into the market, remember, the only one among RGB to actually produce their own chips. In the US.
Neither AMD nor Nvidia are into the foundry business so I don't see how that's relevant. Intel is decoupling their foundry so nothing is stopping either companies from porting their chips if need be.
So essentially destroying one of US' most important companies going into the future. Their chips are so highly valued that the US government are creating sanctions specifically to stop the sale of their high end chips to hostile nations. I can't imagine the US shooting themselves in the foot like that.
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Would have to be either the switch for Mario Kart, Super Smash and Nintendo sports when family is visiting or PS3 for FIFA World Cup 2010 when the lads are visiting. I suspect the switch would age better, though 2010 World Cup is an absolute gem.
I don't think the single player game selection matters that much as it would grow stale with time anyway.
And I hope they get punished for it, but that is not the same as Nvidia having monopoly.