Really not sure what they actually launched the antitrust probe for; this is just pure political drama lol Edit: Okay, it is possibly because of Android dominance, but again, still a political drama
It's not political drama, they were happy to look the other way when there was a quid pro quo. There isn't one anymore so they enforce their own laws. It's 2025 not 1825, we're not right just because we speak English. Although I'm sure a non insignificant portion of the US executive would be more than happy to blockade Beijing and make it rain artillery fire.
The US was also happy to look the other way when Uyghur slaves were manufacturing components for Apple. It's just normal geopolitics.
Virtually any smartphone manufacturer in China apart from Huawei and Apple pay licensing fees to Google. Sounds very monopoly when tens of manufacturers pay licensing fees to the same company. Right or wrong motivation there's a compelling case unless one hits the great mental firewall of "China bad".
Are you really not sure? Say what you will about China, but let's shelf that for a minute. Much like meta, google is an ever spreading cancer that tries to insert itself into every person's life and has unlawfully used their trust position to do so everywhere in the world. Regardless of Chinese motivations, odds are google has violated anti-trust there too.
It's already being done. Both mistal and Fraunhofer have released models for language (and vision I think) that are already being used extensively in research. One of Fraunhofer's in particular is one of the best multilingual tool I've seen and I won't be surprised when it's adopted by the EU institutionally (that is if Microsoft doesn't go on a bribe lobbying run again to stop that from happening)
Don't feel bad, neither AMD or NVIDIA (or Intel for that matter) have produced anything worthy of note in the GPU space since the 1080Ti or 6800XT. Keep your 3080ti, it'll serve you well for now. Hopefully Morethreads or Intel make something interesting and disrupt the market although it's unlikely. NV and AMD have the GPU spaced fairly locked with IP (and cash reserves) that would drown any competitor in legalese for a millennium. The 7900xtx is a helluva card because it competes with overpriced NVIDIA hw, in any sane world it would be a 7800 class card and priced accordingly. (like the 5080 is actually a 5070)
This is designed to stop businesses to use locally deployed models and be forced to deploy cloud services by any of the cocksuckers that sat frontlins in the inauguration.
Why would you buy a single use behemoth when you can buy a strix halo 128GB that can work as an actual tablet/laptop and have all the functionality of the behemoth?! while supporting decades of legacy x86 software. Truly wondering why anyone would buy that NVIDIA thing other than pure ignorance and marketing says NV is the AI company.
AMD, as usual, misses an opportunity here. The 5xxx series is exactly Fermi again (they even removed hotspot data so reviewers would miss the throttling). AMD could leverage the nostalgia of one of ATI's best gens and call the cards 9700 and 9700pro. Damn, those were the days. (since 4750 conflicts with current scheme)
Oh ffs