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http://www.imgtec.com/News/Release/index.asp?NewsID=412
Dated 24/11/2008 and the actual deal might have been closed even earlier than that. At that time (and it's not that much different with console deals) IHVs sell what they have available then and not what they'll have later on their road-map. No one is buying designs "on paper" these days.
Aren't 3 years way-too-much-time to decide such an important and fast-evolving component as the GPU?
AFAIK, the X360 took little more than 2 years from nothing to the end product in the market shelves (it must be some kind of record, though, not the best example).