You are right, I don't know what AMD wished, I just know they should try to take the crown. Everybody else has done it in high-end, as far as I know.

Anyways, I hope 6990 can deliver. I would like to see something (anything) that can challenge 580, and start a good price-war from the top.

Nobody is perfect, and I may be wrong too sometimes, I'm just expressing my ideas, and respect others who mean that was the plan!