GD: Why did Ageia pick this particular time to release the product to retail?You can read it over here.
Agiea: It’s exciting coming to market and it’s the right time – with the software in the pipeline that our developer and publisher partners are thrilled about, with Dell, Alienware, and Falcon Northwest, Systemax, Velocity Micro, and Voodoo PC who collectively represent a huge portion of the system manufacturer market, and with ASUS, BFG and Elsa who together represent the lion’s share of the add-in board market.
Interview with AGEIA

GD Hardware had an interview with AGEIA: