[genr8]

a similar situation just happened between Nvidia and EVGA. NVidia makes the chips, And So, holds all the bargaining chips so to speak, and EVGA is just the board partner that has to find some way to make the price work. At some point it becomes impossible and they have to actually walk away in order to not be taken advantage of. We know this much, and I'm going to assume the situation was similar here with Apple and Wistron.

[kitsunesoba]

I think the Nvidia/EVGA situation might be a little different in that it looks like Nvidia is intentionally trying to squeeze out board partners like EVGA in favor of self-branded cards. The closer parallel is probably when Apple killed the Mac clone program by making it extremely difficult for clone makers to compete.

[fomine3]

Nvidia still doesn't sell their FE so much outside of US, so I don't think their intension is to selling more FEs.