At the end of last year AMD were warning drooling gamers that we’d have to wait until the end of this year before they’d show us any directx 11 lurve, but it looks like the game has changed.
Yesterday AMD confirmed that they have several 40nm cards coming out this year including the high end 5870 X2, based on the R800 GPU. This means it’s likely we’ll be seeing the first batch of dx11 cards a few months earlier than expected, in the form of the Radeon 5850 and 5870.
Nvidia will hit back a few months later with the GTX300 line-up, also 40nm.