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Once again, the nVidia zealots sweep this under the carpet as a dirty little secret and pretend nothing's wrong.
Yet if this were ATI, the same people would be shouting how "ATI Sucks!" and "nVidia would NEVER do that!"
Along with strongarm and bullying tactics, they apparently have trouble with honesty as well. 
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If you have actually been following the SEC investigation of nVidia (and nVidia's own internal review) you would realize that this is, from what has been made public, not a big deal at all. The market is, as usual, overreacting to this news, as they are overreacting to the recent news of accounting practices of IBM, Tyco, and video game maker Take-Two
read up here.
My reaction would be exactly the same if this happened to ATi.