In the middle of December slides from AMD presentation did not contain references about R7xx video card up to 2009, which forced many to think that the announcement of R700 (high end) will be delayed . Later AMD reported that they plan to release R700 in 2008.
Yesterday AMD begin the production of the first video chip models which will compose R700. it is considered that this product will be also two-chip just as the prepared for announcement at the end of January R680. Video card on base R700 will appear already during May this year.
In the past month , Apple company stated about the support of mysterious video chip RV770 at the drivers level .