Good for high mainstream part RV670 is closer than most of you think. The cards will be out in October / November time and we got the TDP for the second card, codenamed Revival. This is the new PRO card and Gladiator is the new XT part but ATI can use the different codenames.
The actual power usage is 80W which is definitely not bad for a card that will have close to R600 performance. I guess that 55 nanometre will be a good process for ATI but we will believe it when we see them out.
Launch in Q4 RV670, ATI's first 55 nanometre chip turns out to be better than anyone inside ATI expected. ATI planned to have the chip ready in very early Q1 next year but for the first time in ATI's history the A11 silicon doesn't need a re-spin.
Traditionally A12 was ATI's production revision but it looks like that A11 is bug free and that it is ready for production.