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Last I checked one can buy personal computers just fine at a moderate price increase.

You cannot buy flagship Nvidia consumer GPUs, and the next level down, the 5080, currently retails approximately at a 100% price increase.

Low VRAM GPUs such as the 5070 at 12GB are not affected much, retailing at 15% above MSRP.

Absent another massive expansion in AI demand due to new real applications, we are probably going to see affordable high-end consumer products in 2028.

Hardly the drama you make it sound like, and calling for regulation or legal consequences seems overblown to me.