Quote Originally Posted by tajoh111 View Post
Man, I can't believe your trying to put a positive spin on this renaming. NV gave an excuse which turned out to be somewhat true in the end for its renaming scheme, the board partners wanted it which I suspect is true, because if smaller companies like bfg have nothing to sell, they will go belly up, which sucks. It nonetheless the renaming still did suck.

Room for fusion products is a lame excuse because their current naming gives so much room for products, far more than NV, E.g 6x90, 6x30, 6x80, ,6x00, 64xx,65xx or even 6xx5. They have 4 digits to work with, that's plenty. Their are almost too many cards as it is. If they really wanted, they should have named, if they really wanted Bart XT as 6790, which would have been better.

They should have kept the 69xx series exclusive to their dual cards. This has nothing to do with fusion as their naming scheme is flexible enough that it can fit pretty much everything they could ever want and everything to do with pricing. AMD just wants fatter margins.

Whatever jowy, if your relating this renaming scheme to naming, your small minded. The bigger concern is it relates to pricing which is I think is everyone's concern, the 5870 was already 400 dollars with certain versions being 500. If they are going to start charging 500+ dollars for cayman, which is a chip under 400mm, that really sucks, which I can see them doing as the price of the 5970 was 700 or 600(I never have seen this price until recently). And I can see the new dual chips coming at 800+ street price.
renaming is when you give something which already has a name another name (8800->9800->GTX250)

model numers have change numerous times and i see no problem as they need to make space to slot in integrated DX11 cards inteo the lower end = Ontario APU below the low end cards and Llano APU above low end cards

my guess:
successor of 56xx series will take the 67xx name;
Llano will take the 66xx name
ontario will carry the 62xx and 63xx brands;
64xx and 65xx will stay the same; and the 61xx series will be renamed OEM low end parts from the last product cycle just like 5145

if you have 2 completely new pricepoints / types of product you have to make certain adjustments to the naming schemes; it might be slightly misleading but it is understandable that they want to keep more space at the bottom range to accomodate special OEM only products or cut down APUs