Talking to Nvidia's partners in the last few months was not quite a chance to hear plenty of happy stories. Every single company that made a bulk of its money selling Nvidia’s GPUs is literaly on its knees.

Fermi delay created a huge income loss for these companies, especially for partners exclusive to Nvidia and the lack of GTX 285, 260 and 295 cards in Q4 2009 and Q1 2010 were the last stabs to their already wounded business.

Business has lost huge income and some of them had to cut salaries or employees as they are struggling to survive.

All eyes are now on Fermi GTX 480 and 470 sales, as high end usually makes a significant part of profit making process. The cards are still open and Fermi is yet to be available in stores.