Quote Originally Posted by SKYMTL View Post
No. That is incorrect.
Unfortunately, for all intents and purposes it looks like the mid-Feb release of 1GB AMD SKUs could be a pipe dream. I have talked to a number of board partners and quite a few don't even have these lower-priced cards on their roadmaps yet. Hopefully these won't be vaporware like the GTX 460 SE ended up being.
Sapphire 1GB 6950 is already listed, as is HIS. Of course it's up to the AIBs to make the 1GB cards and probably not all of them are rushing it and some probably will never offer such SKU.

IIRC some AIBs were going to release higher OC 6870's so the 1GB 6950 and 6870 OC models should be enough of a response for GTX 560. This most certainly won't be killing 2GB models, but competition with a 1GB 6950 could drag the 2GB model prices down along with it.