It wasn’t just it has to run on both variants, they required full feature parity. And the series S was way weaker hardware than even budget PCs of the time.

Prices would get even worse, that’s the point.

You also shouldn’t assume that if Nvidia exits the consumer market that AMD/Intel would even try to fill the gap. The corporate world is very much trend following, and if Nvidia left entirely AMD/Intel are more likely to decide to follow Nvidia’s lead and also exit.

I don’t know about the whole tax haven or legal obfuscation angle, there’s definitely way better places you can do that.

The whole tiktok CEO hearing was a complete shitshow. They were just trying to get him to say he was Chinese or had worked for the Chinese gov in the past as some kind of stupid right wing gotcha just like they did during the Cold War and trying to get people to admit to some kind of communist/socialist assocation, but in true Republican fashion couldn’t do 5 min of searching and find out he’s never even lived in China.

The only “national security” threat was tiktok was siphoning users away from US social media and threatening Zuckerberg’s net worth.

I think you’ve got it backwards. There’s no evidence that he broke any laws with the first affair, and no evidence that she was even a spy, so that one could have been just a regular affair.

The new affair potentially opens Nvidia up to lawsuits, so it carries way more financial risk.

What isn’t a national security risk?

This isn’t about export restrictions either, or really anything else actually. It’s just another opportunistic law firm that constantly sues companies every time their stock drops because they know they can probably get a settlement out of it.