Any news on the ATI R300?

[App]

Has anybody heard some news on the release dates of the ATI R300? The latest I heard was that this card should be released soon after the R200 Series (8500/7500 models). Thnx

[redduc900]

According to Vr-Zone (http://www.vr-zone.com) ...

Q4 2001: R300. This next generation graphics chip is also known as Stinger. It will have a 350MHz graphics core and will show three times the performance of R200. Moreover, R300 will be targeted for work with API DirectX 9.