AMD and NVIDIA hit with class action lawsuit.

[vhx]

http://www.techpowerup.com/659...pped_Against_them.html

Class actions charged against NVIDIA and ATI (now AMD) reveal that the two companies may have staged a competition over the past half-a-decade or so. A judge read out an email which suggested price fixing was rife in the graphics card market. That follows a class action of 51 different plaintiffs, now combined into one, and across different legal jurisdictions, alleging cartel behaviour not only in graphics chips, but flat panels and CRTs too.

In other words, NVIDIA and ATI may have been fixing prices of their products for a while now, it is believed that they held secret meetings to discuss staged competition, chart out prices, timings of product launches among other things. These pseudo-competitions staged provided improved sales among other things.

Well now you know why cards are getting so expensive these days. I remember reading some other posts of why the high end cards aren't much cheaper than $500-600 on release. This is most likely a reason among many.

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[nonameo]

I remember the monster 3D II from Diamond being 200$ when I got it. The 8mb variant.

 

[Quiksilver]

Originally posted by: vhx
http://www.techpowerup.com/659...pped_Against_them.html

Class actions charged against NVIDIA and ATI (now AMD) reveal that the two companies may have staged a competition over the past half-a-decade or so. A judge read out an email which suggested price fixing was rife in the graphics card market. That follows a class action of 51 different plaintiffs, now combined into one, and across different legal jurisdictions, alleging cartel behaviour not only in graphics chips, but flat panels and CRTs too.

In other words, NVIDIA and ATI may have been fixing prices of their products for a while now, it is believed that they held secret meetings to discuss staged competition, chart out prices, timings of product launches among other things. These pseudo-competitions staged provided improved sales among other things.

Well now you know why cards are getting so expensive these days. I remember reading some other posts of why the high end cards aren't much cheaper than $500-600 on release. This is most likely a reason among many.

Um... the 8800GTX was much more expensive on launch than the GTX 280 was on launch for example. Hell, all cards on the market are considerably cheaper than they were last year or any year before that.

Hell, back the the 7900 series launched I spent $380 for one. Now, a simple 9600GT (which can be had for like $125) runs circles around it.

It's the same with CPU's, my s939 single-core 4000+ is like $30 now and I spent $334 on it back then.

So, I don't know what you are talking about.

 

[videogames101]

Lol, you do know, that high end cards have been $600 for the past 4 years?

Like, these guys are idiots, no way Ati and Nvidia would ever price fix, like, ever.

 

[Fox5]

Voodoo 1 launched for $400.
Radeon 9700 pro launched for $400.
Radeon HD4870 launched for $300.