I think you are speculating from a sentence that I've seen that "AIBs won't know MSRP until announcement" into "AIBs don't know any details until public release."
AIBs need to design assets, decide what components they are going to use, design cooling, test that, sign contracts to make said cards, test the cards that have been made, and then ship them to customers.
You truly believe that every AIB knew "near nothing" about what they were building until public release? And then miraculously do all of that in a compressed time window? Source?
AIBs need to design assets, decide what components they are going to use, design cooling, test that, sign contracts to make said cards, test the cards that have been made, and then ship them to customers.
You truly believe that every AIB knew "near nothing" about what they were building until public release? And then miraculously do all of that in a compressed time window? Source?