Nvidia: I am deafened by the sound of silence

It could be either extreme actually. Silence could also mean they are still on track after the release of the 5870 benchmarks and have no need to worry about finalizing their 300s. With very limited ATI supplies they don't really need to rush any sort of announcement to retain a good chunk of the new GPU hype IF they feel their 300s are worthy. Being a pessimist, I am inclined to believe they are in trouble though ;P But only time will tell.

They are busy reverse engineering the ATi 5 series

Or renaming the GTX 2xx series...

Anyway, I've already ordered my 5870, luckily it was only €320 (gotta love that exchange rate), so I couldn't care less about Nvidia right now (or the next two years), but in the long term we, the consumers, need this business to become competitive again, be it because of Larrabee or because of a GTX 380.

There wont be many GT300s for the same reason why there will be shortages of the R5xxx cards since they come from the same plant and the yields even for the 4770 due to leakages (not due to design of gpu but the process. GT300 will be pricey as every one expects but for us who do have they money to get one of those R5xxx cards will have a hard time getting one for a month or two. Fingers crossed no pirates, no ice burgs, no leaks on the ship before it gets here.

They havent been silent. They just dont view ATI as competition anymore since they are no longer in the GPU business. They are the worlds premier GPGPU manufacturer.
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Nvidia-GPGPU-GPU-Direc...

Maybe there will be some very cheap 5870's for sale on ebay.so in the near future...

Yeah, and North Korea is a people's paradise, how I know that? well, their leader said so, so it must be true then...

I'm not saying I think its the smart strategy, but for the past 6 months that seems to be what Nvidia's attitude has become. Everything is GPGPU, CUDA, etc. They want to be a big company and compete with AMD & Intel, not a niche company and compete with ATI.

I think it's just propaganda, they don't have a GPGU right now and the GTX 3xx series will certainly not be a true GPGPU's the way Intel's Larrabee will be.

If thats a fancy word for the president of the company break-dancing during presentations, then yep.    
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/jen-hsun-huang-nvidia-...

Don't count on finding a 5xxx for cheap for a year or so one ebay since I know first hand I am a regular shopper not just for parts but also silver.

You didn't get the joke: the "ebay.so" was a reference to the pirates.

Whats this thing?
http://www.amax.com/CS_nVidiaTeslaDetail.asp?cs_id=TS10...

A primitive precursor to a real GPGPU that they can actually sell to gamers.