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> Tell that to Nvidia.

Nvidia is an excellent example. Without the hardware part, they would simply not have a product line. As they developed expertise in hardware design and production, they are now one of the most valuable companies in existence.

Some market segments even spend thousands of dollars in Nvidia's hardware without having any expectation or plan to use any of NVidia's drivers.

Nvidia proves hardware is the hard part.

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Yet they basically monopoly in the datacenter GPU/AI market mainly because of software.

> Some market segments even spend thousands of dollars in Nvidia's hardware

What segments are those?