Nvidia partners have ordered Fermi cards even before they ended up with Geforce GTX 480 and Geforce GTX 470 brands and this is just the beginning of the story. Back in October Nvidia has created a huge hype for its 512 shader compute chip and people were ordering these cards like there was no tomorrow. 

We talked with quite a few Nvidia partners and it looks like most of them simply won't get enough Fermi cards. Distributors and etail / retail stores have already ordered far more cards that partners can provide.

At launch, Nvidia has much less cards that partners can sell but this might end up to be the case for a few partners, only. Unfortunately, while it's possible that some might end up with enough cards, we highly doubt it.

Note that Fermi cards should show up in etail / retail stores on April 12th, as this date has been confirmed by Nvidia as well as few partners. Our advice to anyone who's after Fermi cards is that you better be ready to buy one as soon as you see it listed.