http://www.theinquirer.net./?article=24540
Not exactly the most reliable site on the net, but if true the cards probably a matter of weeks away.
"taping out" basically means that the core is finalised, theyre getting an acceptable amount of working cores per wafer and will be going into mass production soon.
This is a wafer
[img]http://www.intel.com/pressroom/images/processors/p4_13micron_wafer.jpg[/img]
Each one of those little squares is a pentium 4 core. For graphics cores its the same deal, not all of them will end up working, usually the ones on the edges will have some defects. Up untill now ati was only getting around 20% of those cores on a wafer to work, apparrently now because of the chip being respun the pecentage has dramitically increased. r520 soon kids. biggrin: