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It's not a secret agreement. The fact that they're effectively a duopoly (Intel I guess makes GPUs now), price gouging is as easy as copying the already successful competitor (AMD copying nVidia).
No need for price fixing agreements.
Yeah they both probably outsource the pricing model too third party ai company. that comes up with the best price for them. Good chance they both use the same comapny as well and since they both use the same company it's like non active price fixing. Also it makes it so they can say it's not them