Quote Originally Posted by Manicdan View Post
it does get them something. if most of your profits come from server side, and your competition makes most from client side. you might try to sell your client side stuff as low as possible and making them less sufficient to compete due to lower margins and lets you gain more of their market share. its basically an oligopoly and the only sales you get are ones your competition did not get.
You're making a very basic assumption that companies strive for monopoly status as a primary goal. A race to the bottom does nothing for nVidia's share price so no, there will be no freebies from the green team just to make AMD bleed.

If nVidia has an ace with Kepler they will use it to make more money, not less (see G80). There's also the question of supply - you can only undercut prices so much until you can't meet demand.