Quote Originally Posted by Tenknics View Post
And yea I know 5850 and 5870 are both Cypress. You missed the point. Do you really think that they are talking up this hemlock, a high-end x2 board, a poison, a killer of Nvidia, the product that's supposed to give them the crown back etc. etc. just to release a mid-range x2 board? Like I said anything is possible but again I don't see the logic and hype being built up around Hemlock just to be a 5850x2 part..Historically the xx70 x2's came out first, followed by a xx50 x2..Why would that change now?
Depending on pricing, they might have a segment to fill.
I agree on not expecting it right out the door or before the 59x0, since they supposedly dropped the x2 branding. Also, again depending on pricing, they will have to wait to build inventory on the 5850 before they could think of creating a x2 part out of it.