If true then I think it is time to put all responsible folks at NVIDIA in jail. This is collusion to the maximum, if it can be proven in court. I don't think they should be able to just pay a fine - there has to be mandatory jail time for people who build a cartel. Even in the USA a cartel should be forbidden - capitalism as the main religion in the USA, mandates that free market competition leads to lower prices. This clearly can not work if big corporations decide to milk the market. These things have increased insanely when the orange king and his cronies seized power.