http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/15955/1/
Looks good to them
Nvidia partners have high hopes that GF100, Fermi chip, should end up as a good one and they are already ordering some huge quantities of it.
The reasons behind such a risky decision are quite clear. GT200 is not that widely available anymore and probably someone at Nvidia messed up with 55nm wafer orders, as Nvidia didn’t expect to have such a strong demand in Q3 and Q4, and therefore partners do hope that Fermi can fix the situation.
You have to be the early birds with your orders as once Nvidia show it to all of the partners, the waiting line to get chips might already be too long. It is not that Nvidia partners have much of a choice, as GT200 is slowly being discontinued and Fermi is supposed to fill the gap.
Nvidia and its partners believe that Fermi should destroy Radeon 5870 and 5850 sales, but this is only once when Fermi starts shipping and it strongly depends on the quantities of what Nvidia can deliver. Until then ATI will be making quite a lot of money on 58x0 and 57x0 series.
