Rough weather for NVidia

NVidia has posted a particularly alarming warning on its results and now predicts a fall of its incomes in the order of 40 to 50%.
The company puts this historical and dramatic fall on the back of the consumers who clearly decreased their purchases of graphics cards but also on the computer manufacturers who rather than place new orders preferred to liquidate their stocks.
It is more than probable that the ratio of price/performances of its Geforce GTX, and the bad one press related to the defective chips 8600 are also a cause.
And the situation risks not to be fixed in the short run, if one looks at the latest advertisements made for their mobile chips. Rather than launching something new, they were satisfied to rename the current ranges and being satisfied with rather parsimonious improvements.
The only hope that remains is that the economic crisis does not last too long a time and that the CUDA quickly becomes a standard (helped by Open CL?): a unquestionable way to start again the sales of powerful chips.