Originally Posted by tejas84 
Hmmmmm ok. My post was actually @ Richard Huddy as stated but what the hey. Can you give conclusive proof where Nvidia "dropped the ball" as you say? The information about Dr Ruiz is totally relevant as he brokered the AMD/ ATI merger, led AMD into deep debt and was an integral part of the AMD fab spinoff. Any outcome will have an effect on AMD and/or GF whether you like it or not. Nvidia is still a richer company with good cash reserves from their successes during the 8800GTX era, so I think your hope of their early demise is rather premature...
I don't see anyone 'hoping' for nVidia's demise, it's just leaning in that general direction, and people feel the need to voice their concerns with the direction nVidia is heading. And no, Dr. Ruiz is completely irrelevant to this line of discussion, stop using that red herring, please.
Originally Posted by tejas84 AMD have severe shortages of the Cypress GPU in the UK and the USA at this time.
No kidding?.. Brand new, cudding edge GPU is short on stock, further news at 11! It's still to have stock being bought up faster than you can supply, than to withhold stock to force prices up, artificially.
Originally Posted by tejas84 Well let me see. ATI Stream is certainly not open for Intel and Nvidia to use and CAL is proprietary. Heck even Direct X is proprietary! AMD's GPU business complain a little too much. If they support all games in future like they have supported Dirt 2 then maybe I will change my mind about AMD GPU support.
DX is proprietary, but it's a pesudo-standard. One which everyone has access to and can use (even if they can't modify it, which isn't much of a problem because modifying GPUs is far more difficult).