After almost two weeks of wrangling with its legal department, Nvidia has finally answered some of our questions about its GPU and chipset failure problems. First, the company sent us a statement addressing the allegations of AMD's Packaging and Interconnect Director, Neil McLellan. As we wrote earlier this week, McLellan claims AMD has a superior chip package design because it uses a specific set of materials, including eutectic solder bumps. In his view, Nvidia chips have failed because they use (supposedly) more fatigue-prone high-lead bumps and because, he asserted, Nvidia cares less about packaging technologies.

Once Nvidia was done addressing McLellan's accusations, the company answered our questions about potential desktop GPU issues, the failing Nvidia-powered HP desktops we heard about earlier this week, and whether the GeForce 9400M chipset in Apple's new MacBooks could also face problems. Read on for all the juicy details.