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ELI5: How come Apple and Samsung, AMD and Intel, Sony and Microsoft, TV manufacturers, etc, are reaching the same technology breakthroughs at roughly the same time?
gpt
All have huge R&D budgets

All use the same market research to plan their next R&D.

R&D is rarely faster if you just pump more money into it. 

All have similarly (but subtantially) skilled engineers. 

So, all are basically doing the same research, with the same market data, with equally smart people, with the same top-of-the-line equipment. 

So all get to the breakthrough at roughly the same time.