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A diversion to steal the attention from its rival company maybe. (All i could hear in my head at this point is sheldon cooper saying "It's a trap" lol)
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I thought AMD's announcement was on wednesday?
Maybe the rumors of AMD's Hawaii GPU being faster than the Titan was to much for him to handle? .