Rumor updates: 5870 selling like hotcakes, Nvidia halts chip development & leaving consumer market

Lots of news, speculation and rumors this week regarding the latest in the GPU world.

• ATI has sold hundreds of thousands of Radeon HD 5870 DirectX 11 cards, with no impact or slowdown from the Nvdia Fermi announcement - Fudzilla
• Reports are circulating that NVIDIA will kill off the GTX 260, GTX 275, and GTX 285 and exit the high-end and mid-range graphics card market, focusing instead on the scientific community. DirectX 11 Fermi-based entry level cards won't arrive until 2010 - ZDNet and Fudzilla
• Nvidia has put all CPU-bound chipset development work on hold, pending resolution of a legal dispute with Intel - VizWorld

Obviously I have no inside knowledge of what is true or just partially true, but it is definitely interesting reading.