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AMD Radeon 6970 releases on December 7th - Chiphell/Napoleon

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Genx87 said:
So was AMD lying to Appopin when they said the week of Dec 13th?
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They only told appopin (and other writers) that the 13th was the new NDA expiration and the official release would be determined 'soon'. We all assumed it would be the same week as that but there is no reason it has to be.
 
Highmodulus said:
Maybe the week difference is to fill the supply chain?
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No, it still does not make sense. AMD specifically told Apoppin, along with other websites, that the NDA was lifting on the week of December 13th. Products do not get purposely released to consumers a week before NDAs expire.
 
tviceman said:
No, it still does not make sense. AMD specifically told Apoppin, along with other websites, that the NDA was lifting on the week of December 13th. Products do not get purposely released to consumers a week before NDAs expire.
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AMD changed their minds once before, why is it so hard to believe that they changed their minds again? Maybe they will change their minds a third time and the card will come out Dec. 31. Who knows?
 
Keysplayr said:
Yeah, how many of you here believe that the NDA will expire after the 69xx series is released?
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Obviously it will end the day of release. But a tentative "week of the 13th" expiration does not mean the release is certain that week. They can end the NDA whenever they feel is appropriate.

I never got from the AMD info that they were claiming the release was the 13th, only that the NDA is tentatively set for then and that we would find out for sure later.
 
nitromullet said:
The last post in the linked chiphell thread is dated 2010-9-11, which is two days before apoppin posted the email from AMD. I'm guessing the 13th is the correct date.
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The "December 9" post was posted on the 18th.

Also, the modern world (outside of USA) uses ISO date format of YEAR-Month-Day.. That post you linked was from September. It is also not the same thread linked in the OP...
 
Keysplayr said:
Yeah, how many of you here believe that the NDA will expire after the 69xx series is released?
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Didn't that, or something kinda like that, happen with a prior AMD release?

RV740 or some such? The product launched but there was a whole bunch of stuff that was still under NDA so Anand could not speak to it even with the chip selling on Newegg at the time?
 
idontcare said:
didn't that, or something kinda like that, happen with a prior amd release?

Rv740 or some such? The product launched but there was a whole bunch of stuff that was still under nda so anand could not speak to it even with the chip selling on newegg at the time?
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4850.
 
Daedalus685 said:
The "December 9" post was posted on the 18th.

Also, the modern world (outside of USA) uses ISO date format of YEAR-Month-Day.. That post you linked was from September. It is also not the same thread linked in the OP...
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You're right about the date format (was still on my first cup of coffee), but the op edited his post with a different thread as well. I was sort of scratching my head at the whole thing really, but having the wrong thread linked makes more sense.
 
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Ohh...I get it. So AMD is the Imperial navy, about to unleash an attack on a bunch of sleeping and unsuspecting sailors, otherwise known as nVidia.

The problem is that all it may do is awake a sleeping giant. nV will slowly take back every price point from the sneaky AMD, one by one, until they are in striking range of the AMD single-card crown, aka "The Heartland." Instead of storming it directly, nV will use stolen German technology to create a super-GPU, (GTX780GX2FTW) and make AMD surrender unconditionally.



(Am I reading too much into the date?)
 
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nitromullet said:
You're right about the date format (was still on my first cup of coffee), but the op edited his post with a different thread as well. I was sort of scratching my head at the whole thing really, but having the wrong thread linked makes more sense.
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For some reason at times when using a google translate link it shows you the incorrect page, at least in my experience.

I did have to edit the link to the correct post.
 
OCGuy said:
Ohh...I get it. So AMD is the Imperial navy, about to unleash an attack on a bunch of sleeping and unsuspecting sailors, otherwise known as nVidia.

The problem is that all it may do is awake a sleeping giant. nV will slowly take back every price point from the sneaky AMD, one by one, until they are in striking range of the AMD single-card crown, aka "The Heartland." Instead of storming it directly, nV will use stolen German technology to create a super-GPU, (GTX780GX2FTW) and make AMD surrender unconditionally.



(Am I reading too much into the date?)
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lol what the heck?
 
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