I want to argue that graphics cards are really 3 markets: integrated, gaming (dedicated), and compute. Not only do these have different hardware (fixed function, ray tracing cores, etc.) but also different programming and (importantly) distribution models. NVIDIA went from 2 to 3. Intel went from 1 to 2, and bought 3 (trying to merge). AMD started with 2 and went to 1 (around Llano) and attempted the same thing as NVIDIA via GCN (please correct me if I'm wrong).My understanding is that the reaso...