Quote Originally Posted by Heinz68 View Post
Off course I was just kidding about the going out of business and wood screws, because some of your post are putting it nicely more suitable for some comedy club forum than XtremeSystems News Forums. So my reply was in the same fashion and sarcastic.

I mean how difficult it's to Google HD 6900? Instead of speculating.
Strange that even when I posted in me reply AMD's Matt Skynner, Corporate VP and General Manager showing the card with the news story link included, you keep repeating the same baloney speculation that AMD is going to be scared to release the card. Yes as I said before they are going to be so much scared that they will go out of business completely and that makes about the same sense.

There was no nasty delay or wood screws, unless Charlie confirms it.
The HD 6970 & 6950 was delayed for about 3 weeks. If you call it nasty than what would you call the GTX 380 delay?
It took over one year when it finally arrived as GTX 580 without the wood screws. But let me say it is an awesome card so maybe it was worth to wait for it.

The HD 6990 release was officialy changed by AMD from December last year to Q1 2011. The reason is very simple, the card is going to use bin chip same as the HD 5970 is using bined chip (by the way still the fastes card on the market). So there is not need for AMD to rush out the HD 6990.

It takes some time to built up some inventory with such chips. The HD 5970 was sold out on the first day when released.
I placed the order when the card was first listed but it was too late, was placed on waiting list and had to wait 3 weeks before I got the card. The shortage also created price gouging. The MSRP was $599 but the selling price was about $700.

Hope this time the same wont repeat.
First of all, don't repeat my lines with changing the meaning of it.

Are you saying it was a good move to delay the 6990? Got'a be a limit for what you can accept and defend, even as a hard core AMM fan.

I'm afraid the reason wasn't so simple as you are trying to explain. I said "AMD has chickened out" already last year when they announced that nasty delay. They had to go back to drowning board and make a "new" redesigned/re-freshed (or whatever you want to call it).

Now the big question is: can 6990 (which got redesigned/re-freshed before GTX560) still be competitive against nVidia's next double-GPU? I don't think so, because nVidia has several option to match/beat at right at the day of release.

That nasty delay has actually killed AMD's wild card, it can't do anything good any longer. You may mean otherwise, but the future comes fast enough.