@az
What do you mean "as always"? ATi beat out the 5, 6, and 7 Nvidia series. Nvidia just recently had a good run with the 8 series.

I wonder how well these drivers are going to work and compatibility with older games. Seems like its going to be a big headache software developers are already clueless about how to code for dual and quad core cpus now gpus. I'm guessing it will all be done in the drivers and the hardware but them drivers always seem to be a bit flaky and multi core gpus seems to be a big leap in complexity.

how do you figure its taped?

that misreading was strong as most tech. sites published it, while the roadmaps was only for platforms not technologies or parts !!

the roadmap stated there will be a platform that uses R700 in 2009, and no platform in 2008 will use R700, some sites translated that to R700 being finished only in 2009 !!

about the taping, I already knew that 8 days ago or some thing like that, but even If I said a thing, who will beleieve me over all these misreading tech sites ??
I've already said that misreading in Arabic speacking forum ( arabhardware.com ) at first time it was rumered as they trust me :)

Yeah it will be good, but Nvidia will be a little bit better as always.