R600 delayed to Q2 2007

Wednesday 21st February 2007, 12:12:00 PM, written by Arun

Our sources confirm that AMD's next generation R600 GPU has been further delayed to Q2 2007 and, sadly, they didn't mention April 1st as the likely ETA. In fact, our understanding is that we're likely looking at late April as a minimum here. Other reports on the net, as of the time of writing, also claim they have official statements from AMD confirming the new Q2 release goal.

AMD is indicating that the reason for the delay is that they want to target a broader audience with R600, implying they've probably decided they need something to compete against the GeForce 8800 GTS 320MiB. On a related note, we haven't heard anything implying RV610 or RV630 have been similarly delayed; thus, at this point, a combined launch doesn't seem out of the question. That would depend on how much R600's launch has been pushed back, and whether they'd be willing to not hard-launch the entire family if they aren't all ready at exactly the same time.

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