R700 to be named HD 4000 ?
 

There is a big chance that the R700 generation will carry Radeon HD 4000 generation name, but there is also a chance that ATI will lose the HD prefix or completely change the name.

Since the 3870 is already out, the new R700 marchitecture at 45 nm would deserve a much higher number and that is likely to happen. It is still to early for a final conclusion, as ATI likes to play with the names but at least there is a big change.

http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?op...67&Ite mid=34

Since there are no more XT, SE, Pro, LE, vanilla, or other suffixes, they can name it what they like. :)