Think these will be available before ASIC's?
http://www.techspot.com/news/51013-dual-gpu-amd-radeon-hd-8990-specifications-leak-online.html"This monster card is listed as having 5.1 billion transistors (between the two GPUs), 5,210 stream processors and 160 texture units per core. The 8990 is also listed as having 48 ROPs per core and a pair of 384-bit buses. Memory is expected to be anywhere in the range of 6GB to 12GB and should be clocked from the factory at 1,250MHz. Each GPU will ship running at 950MHz, according to the roadmap."
5210 stream processors... little too late to the game, but that would been fun to mine & game with.
Would love to get a 8990 if my moola was not tied up with those BFL + bASIC orders.