New rumor about ATI Southern Islands

[RPGWiZaRD]

NDA's....... (New Doodle Agendas???)

man NDA's have gotten a lot tighter in this industry, specially taking into account how they're making part of their market strategy... its mega-nuts

Yea I wonder how exactly the NDAs are formed these days, looks like chiphell have had a card for several weeks already but they are only able to post more info little by little and this close to launch we only got this low quality topview pic etc. :p

Like does the NDA have specified what info can be revealed at what date or something. xD

25 sept: Rumors about specs OK to post.
6 oct: low quality pics = OK
12 oct: high quality pics = OK
etc.

It's clear that AMD uses the NDA part of their strategy/marketing IMO to create more interest. On the paper this Barts doesn't sound like any spectacular, yet they've managed to make it seem like it is (not saying it won't be good cuz it'll prolly be better than any other product at the time from a price/performance POV) but it's still on 40nm and pretty much a stop gap before the real stuff gets released on 28nm.