>>...The question is why Nvidia would want the tsuris of trying to buy AMD. AMD, after all, owns ATI, a rival graphics chip maker which Nvidia was slowly grinding into powder before AMD swooped for it...<<
Wow... so this would leave us with only one important video manufacturer and one compatible processor company - that’s not unlike Hillary Clinton’s theory of lowering costs with a single provider - in the real world monopolies lower competition and increase prices while stifling innovation.
It works because, once it’s in place, there’s no alternative model to point to show that it doesn’t work as claimed. Oh, if you question Monopoly, go to jail, go directly to jail, do not pass go...