New sources:gizmodo.com wrote:
Email Reveals Nvidia and ATI Colluded to Inflate Prices
A graphics card card can cost you almost as much as a bona fide Batman gadget, especially when you get up to ridiculous amounts of power and performance, but that ludicrous price is actually less ludicrous than it could be, because of the cutthroat competition between ATI and Nvidia, right? Not so fast. An email Nvidia sent by Nvidia senior VP of marketing, Dan Vivoli, to ATI's president and COO, Dave Orton made public by the judge in an ongoing anti-trust suit against the two companies reveals that they both see eye-to-eye on prices. Namely, that they should be higher.
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202422773207
http://www.itexaminer.com/nvidia-ati-ac … olved.aspx
Old sources:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl … p;from=rss
http://www.joystiq.com/2006/12/02/feds- … ust-probe/
I say burn them at the stake and then let us all rejoice for $300 SLI/ CrossFire setups!
