Agreed. But ATi is famous on shooting themselves in old Radeon 8500 times they had great chip but basically few of them make to market due some TSMC also problems at expected speed.

First kittys are drown in cold water If AMD is SMART they already have in production an RV870 successor as whole new generation with todas dx11 and advanced to dx11+. And they should made that jumpjust like nV did with skipping to NV40 only a year after they introduce their first trully dx9.0 chip(and it was dx9.0c at the beginning, NV30) making huge gap between them and ATI.
And now all they need to do is to produce abundance of GPUs in GFs 32nm bulk as a Cypress refresh and shrink in once but starting new HD6000 series. So trully 2560SPs with 128TMU 32RBEs and with FMA revised dx11 they have now. So in June we might look at some Fermi killer if it aint be 3x better than any of todays hd5800 series ?:

We are talkin about calendar 2010 in the headline.