Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.
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Gotta get them to AIB's then there's branding, maybe some sort of testing, packaging and then it has to make it out to retailers. Doesn't look to me like there'll be any retail stock on the 26th.
I'm thinking that Nvidia is fabricating all the first run of cards, including testing and standard heatsinks. The AIBs will just slap a sticker over the heatsink cowl, and put them into boxes. Do that a few hundred times a day for a few days, and that's every AIB's allocation sorted.
As for travelling, AMD AIB were shipping cards around the world by plane to get stock out there, which is 24-48 hours in the air. Sometimes it took longer to get stock through customs than it spent in the air, so I would expect Nvidia to be able to shift what little stock they have around the place very quickly too.