No offense to anyone involved in this rumor, but anyone stupid enough to believe this should be euthanized immediately.

AMD/ATI execs aren't this dumb. No company's execs are. There heads would be on silver platters at an emergency board meeting were such an event to occur, given the circumstances of R600's *already delayed* launch and AMD/ATI's financial situation.

Which bit are you finding hard to believe?

That there should be a month between paper release and hard release? (not unusual, certainly non unprecedented). Or that they're doing a paper release as late as february? (also not surprising).

Read rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=33876718 if you like for my reasoning why. Same username there as here. Sorry for no link, but I don't have 5 posts yet :crazy: