Steve mentioned a little earlier about Scott Sellers' quotes on the Silicon Investor boards. Well, Patrick Grinsell also got some comments from 3dfx President/CEO Greg Ballard. He says that the problems are known and solved, but may not make Q4. Also that 3dfx hasn't been trying to fool the market, but that it's a surprise to them as well. Here's pieces of the quotes, you can go here to read the whole thing.

"I think a number of the people on the boards interpreted this to mean that we have been out spreading that word for "months" behind the back of the average retail investor. In fact, we have been making this statement for less than a week only to investors that we have talked to when they call us." "I do think they [the problems] are resolved, although we are still assessing this, but they took much, much longer to resolve than we thought. Now the question is whether we have left ourselves enough time." "[The problems were] Completely unanticipated and due, in large part, to the enormous complexity of this chip."