17 days = probably already mass produced.

AMD did well with this generation.  I think I read that nVidia basically made a far too complex chip, the reason they had all these issues.  ATI has mainly been focused on gaming.  nVidia has some other focuses, eg CUDA.  Unfortunately, I don't think it'll become heavily mainstream without similar support from AMD.  (note, OpenCL/DirectCompute are somewhat different from CUDA)