Quote Originally Posted by SKYMTL View Post
XBitLabs' original info was wrong. AMD's original news release was wrong. AMD fessed up and sent out a corrected email later in the day.

HD 6970 2GB remains the high end card and likely won't have a 1GB variant unless any upcoming NVIDIA cards perform better than expected.

Plus, the 1GB version of the HD 6950 shouldn't be too much of a surprise since anyone who read the release-day articles would have seen AMD already spilling the beans in mid-December.
You say "AMD's original news release was wrong", that's positionable, but I tough they had QA on newses releases. Anyways, I'm wondering if this is a "change of plan" at last moment. A smart move, anyways.