We don't know much but we can confirm that ATI is working on a smaller R600
marchitecture based chip codenamed R650. It is officially messed up with R600. The
R600 chip is simply too hot and it has terrible heat dissipation and this
problem has to be fixed. Dissipation of 230+
Watts is simply too much for any graphic chip and any standard.
We are seeing R520 got swapped with R580 situation all over
again and this can definitely confirm that R600 won't have a good and great
life. R600 will be replaced as soon as possible as soon as the R650 redesign is
done. This is a very expensive but desperate move.
We don't know any schedules about R650 but we are sure that
it comes later than Q2.