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http://www.pcworld.com/article/2027...on-and-quickly-clarify-2013-radeon-plans.html
The rabble became aroused when Japan's 4Gamer.net published an interview with AMD product manager Devon Nekechuk. The details are a bit blurry, mostly because the Google translation of the interview isn't especially clear, but it appears as though Nekechuk said that AMD will lean on the current-gen Radeon HD 7000-series lineup throughout 2013, implying that the release of the Radeon HD 8000 series will not be a major focus for most of the yearthough Nekechuk never actually says as much in the shoddy Google translation.
Nekechuk also provided 4Gamer.net with the chart below, which indicates that the Radeon 7000 series will be "Stable throughout 2013." Note, however, that the timeline ends with the third quarter, not the end of the yearand that the Radeon HD 7000 and 8000 series could both be available at retail simultaneously, as is often the case during transitions to new GPU generations.