Quote Originally Posted by SKYMTL View Post
Or a semi-hard launch coupled with months of searching high and low for stock replenishment.

Yes, but remember that there are several more steps involved rather than just announcing additional wafer production. And even 30,000 per month is a paltry number in the grand scheme of things.

The info isn't extrapolated. The HD 4770 situation of stock in the channel at launch followed by very few units available after that was used as an example.
Seeing as how RV870 has had final silicon in production since about June/July, they are obviously going to have MORE units available than RV740. Not to mention the fact that RV740 also had a mobile bin. Let's not forget that TSMC actually shut-down 40nm production for a week or two to try and fix the problems.

So... no, there will not be less than 40k cards at launch.