The short list of long faces

Last week we managed to find out two names of partners that will be gone from Nvidia's partner list, at least in E.U., and now we've got the full monty.

We’ve already mentioned Foxconn and Club 3D, here, and the remaining three are ECS, Biostar and Albatron.

The last three are second-tier motherboard manufacturers and obviously, they didn’t focus enough on graphics to remain on Nvidia’s life support list. We talked to some of these people, and it's easy to imagine that they are far from happy about it. Nvidia, on the other hand, simply had to cut the smaller ones in order to help the big ones survive the storm.

The other partners more dedicated to graphics have told us that this move actually gives them much more breathing space.