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Geo · 24-Jan-2007, 01:48

AMD held their 4th quarter 2006 financial results conference call on Tuesday. In answer to a question about the timing of their next generation R600 GPU, AMD's Henri Richard, Executive Vice President of Worldwide Marketing and Sales, replied: "We're still planning to bring to market the R600 product in the 1st quarter". As AMD's financial quarters are calendar based, this should mean that as of today R600's launch is scheduled to be no later than the end of March. Increasing speculation has focused on early March, or possibly CeBit (March 15-21), as a likely launch timeframe, and Richard's answer did nothing to dispel that train of thought.

Bouncing Zabaglione Bros. · 24-Jan-2007, 10:03

The word "planning" still gives them wiggle room. Of course "bring to market" might also not necessarily be interpreted as in the shops and available to buy.

After this long delay and missing the Christmas season. they'd better have a hard launch with lots of stock everywhere.

Geo · 24-Jan-2007, 23:53

Sure. But Henri Richard seems to be a very impressive fellow. And this is the most definite answer we've yet seen in public from AMD re R600. I think he could have easily blown smoke/fudged if he felt any need to do so. He apparently didn't.

24-Jan-2007, 01:48	#1
Geo Mostly Harmless Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Uffda-land Posts: 9,156	AMD promises R600 for "1st quarter" AMD held their 4th quarter 2006 financial results conference call on Tuesday. In answer to a question about the timing of their next generation R600 GPU, AMD's Henri Richard, Executive Vice President of Worldwide Marketing and Sales, replied: "We're still planning to bring to market the R600 product in the 1st quarter". As AMD's financial quarters are calendar based, this should mean that as of today R600's launch is scheduled to be no later than the end of March. Increasing speculation has focused on early March, or possibly CeBit (March 15-21), as a likely launch timeframe, and Richard's answer did nothing to dispel that train of thought.

24-Jan-2007, 23:53	#3
Geo Mostly Harmless Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Uffda-land Posts: 9,156	Sure. But Henri Richard seems to be a very impressive fellow. And this is the most definite answer we've yet seen in public from AMD re R600. I think he could have easily blown smoke/fudged if he felt any need to do so. He apparently didn't. __________________ "We'll thrash them --absolutely thrash them."--Richard Huddy on Larrabee "Our multi-decade old 3D graphics rendering architecture that's based on a rasterization approach is no longer scalable and suitable for the demands of the future." --Pat Gelsinger, Intel ". . .its taking us longer than we would have liked to get a [Crossfire game] profiling system out there" --Terry Makedon, ATI, July 2006 "Christ, this is Beyond3D; just get rid of any fker talking about patterned chihuahuas! Can the dog write GLSL? No. Then it can fk off." --Da Boss

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24-Jan-2007, 10:03	#2
Bouncing Zabaglione Bros. Regular Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 6,164	The word "planning" still gives them wiggle room. Of course "bring to market" might also not necessarily be interpreted as in the shops and available to buy. After this long delay and missing the Christmas season. they'd better have a hard launch with lots of stock everywhere.

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