Radeon 9800 SE, The return of the 9500?

We managed to find out some details concerning the mysterious RADEON 9800 SE graphics cards firstly mentioned in CATALYST 3.5 release notes. Apparently, there will be two versions of the RADEON 9800 SE, one of them will be pretty low-cost and will more resemble RADEON 9600, another will be more advanced and will probably become a successor of the legendary RADEON 9500 128MB that was easily transformed into more expensive RADEON 9700.
No cards in the U.S though.
This stinks the 9500 tweak all over it, read more at the source:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/display/20030717153234.html
No cards in the U.S though.
This stinks the 9500 tweak all over it, read more at the source:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/display/20030717153234.html
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Many of these cards have nothing in common in either price or performance (accept for the Pro/Non-Pros) What happned to the simple naming schemes of yore?
The 9700 was much harder to get in Europe, and they lost sales there because of it and Nvidia based cards sold more at that time.
And yea, I have basically lost track of ATI product naming. Too many names. And of course there is the problem of marketing making card Y a higher number than card X, even though card X can bet card Y.