Gideon
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It comes down to simple math for the AIB. If you currently sell GPU's from both AMD and NVIDIA it's easy to figure out who to side with. More than likely, any company that sells both sells more NVIDIA GPUs than AMD GPUs. If the split is 70% / 30% for example, then the math is easy. If sanctions from NVIDIA would hurt NVIDIA GPU sales for a given AIB by more than 30%, then dropping AMD makes sense. While you lose those AMD sales, the GPP seems like it could make up some of those losses or at least stop you from bleeding those NVIDIA sales entirely.
Basically, the AIBs may not have much of a choice either.
The AIB's do have a choice they can all decide to refuse the program, sometimes collusion is a good thing.