Shareholders of these companies are likely you or I, as they are so big they are significant parts of index funds purchased by retirement funds and the like
Yes that's the point, same for GPUs. Don't need as many compute units if the architecture is better
5950x to 9800x3d for example. Cost me about half the price, half the cores, much faster architecture. Equivalent or faster in pretty much every workload.
Apply the same back to GPUs, over a few generations there has not been any appreciable upgrade option at reduced cost with equivalent performance or better to the 6900XT
You don't even know what my teacup is?