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AMD has reached a new milestone in the development of the graphics card architecture Southern Islands. The new architecture is expected to launch as Radeon HD 7000 and taped out back in February and is ready for test manufacturing. Even though AMD is estimated to be ready by the end of Summer the right manufacturing technology is missing.

The information published at Semi Accurate claims AMD had the first Southern Islands circuits ready for tests six weeks ago and if we follow the time schedule from previous launches counting evaluations, mass production and graphics card evaluations the new Radeon HD 7000 series would be ready for launch by the end of July. That is if everything goes as planned and that it keeps to the same schedule as with Northern Islands and Evergreen.

Radeon HD 7000 family may be ready for Q3 2011 - www.nordichardware.com

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