TheInquirer reports that the red team's answer to Nvidia's GeForce 8800 graphics cards won't see the light of day for another two months. While previous rumors pointed to a February release, this new report says the latest revision of ATI's R600 prototype suffers from problems "serious enough" to warrant a re-spin. This re-spin will supposedly delay the card's release by a couple of weeks, leading to a launch in early March-likely a week before the CeBIT show, which is taking place in Hanover, Germany from March 9 to March 15.

The last revision of the prototype chip - upon which a certain "pre-review" is based - also suffers from problems which are serious enough to get another re-spin, sources tell me. This re-spin puts a hold on the launch for another couple of weeks, and now R600 is looking like an early March launch, probably the week before SnowBIT in Hangover. However, AMD/ATI is making severe changes to the whole line up and we can say that this launch, when it happens, will be very, very shocking for the 3D industry.

"will be very, very shocking for the 3D industry."

What exactly does this mean?

what could they have possibly kept a secret about this?