We’ve learned that Nvidia is trying to get Palit to become an Nvidia only partner. For a while now, Palit has been selling selling ATI and Nvidia cards, and it's doing a reasonably  good job for both GPU makers. Palit is the big company behind many brands including Xpertvision, Galaxy and probably most famous, Gainward.

Palit is a strategically important partner, as it holds almost 50 percent of the Chinese market and it has a strong presence in the rest of the world. Nvidia is trying to sweeten the deal, all in order to win Palit’s hart only for itself, but Palit likes the fact that selling ATI and Nvidia at the same time, which probably brings them more money.

Nvidia’s sales from January are getting much better as the confidence in Nvidia is getting back, but we will have to see how the GTX275 will stand up against ATI's HD 4890 card, as this will be an important milestone, and the fact that RV740, ATI’s first 40nm card is just around the corner, doesn't help either.