14 DAY TRIAL // There were so many materials dedicated exclusively to this unborn piece of hardware that I won't even bother talking about it from the technical point of view again. It's quite improbably that all the R600 related articles left nothing in your head so I won't take a step further in doing just that. However, due to Ati's behavior, it seems that I'm getting better and better at giving you bad news.
When I typed "bad news", most of you have probably understood what I was going to say. But for the rest who don't love (hate) Ati so much, I will say it: YES, they have delayed the R600 again. And it's beginning to get so frustrating that I guess Nvidia even has a chance of rolling out an 80nm version of the G80 GPU before Ati launches the R600.
The actual samples of R600 are in testing phase called "pre-production" but it seems that the boards have been producing some serious problems. I'm not joking here; the situation is so bad that the R600 team decided to get another pack of early samples in order to retest them. We don't know if it's about the heat, the power or the GPUs themselves have gone mad but it's bad enough to put a halt to the project for at least 3 weeks.
I don't think that R600 will see the light before March. And this date is an optimistic one because, at the moment, the developing process of the R600 could be rolled back by 2 or 3 stages. Since we can't do anything about it, we'll wait for it to come out. But it would be better worth it!