Sylvie, you are missing the elephant in the china shop...

NVIDIA is under an ITC investigation that has a very good chance resulting in a full blockade of all infringing NVIDIA products into the USA, NVIDIA has been on notice of infringement of Rambus IP since 2000 and the patents asserted to be infringed in the ITC action are good for at least another decade. If NVIDIA values the US market they should negotiate a settlement with Rambus (the drop-dead date for settlement is April 2010) Mind you, NVIDIA owes Rambus close to a Billion dollars! In back royalties.

Things are very much worse then you portray them to be in the Green Goblin’s cesspool of lies and deceit.

AMD had 100 design wins for Puma platform too. And how many Pumas we got today?

One way or another nVidia should remain i believe.. There is too much talent to waste to just focus on projects like ion.. just cause ppl hate its ceo.. Remember the domination of the 8800 series while ati produced an innovative but power hungry monster of 2900.. Ups and downs happen hopefully nVidia will crawl out of it better focused.. I dont see intel letting them anywhere near chipsets for i7 not with the massive profits they reeling in by prices of x58..

"Ion appears to be gaining traction, Nvidia said, with over 20 current design wins"

They call all 9400GT "ion" now, so obviously they're calling every system that uses a 9400GT a "design win".

But this would have been a lot more interesting had Charlie been putting the boot into Nvidia again.