AMD Delays HD 6990 'Antilles' till Q1 2011

[Tharic-Nar]

AMD quietly announced that it would be delaying it's upcoming flagship 6000 series graphics card till the first quarter of 2011. The Antilles GPU would have been the most powerful offering from AMD's current GPU lineup. A dual GPU based graphics card utilizing two Cayman based chips that will be found in the upcoming 6970. The GPU was originally thought to be released this December, but no fixed date was set.

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[Optix]

I think they're building dramatic tension. "That's not a knife. This is a knife!" sort of thing.

 

[Tharic-Nar]

"That's not a knife. This is a knife!".

Crocodile Dundee to the rescue!

But yeah, i don't see the delay as a real issue, it's only a few weeks over.... not 6 months... well, not yet anyway.