I doubt they will release mining cards. The only reason gpu coins exist is so miners can mine with gaming hardware.
A dedicated mining card would have little resale value.
I think what they will do is throw in a ton of cores and optimize them for mining.
Thats kinda what I said.... Is it not?
Somewhat. I just don't think they will modify hardware solely for mining but firmware wouldn't be too difficult/costly.
I could be wrong and we might see AMD go all out with a mining gpu but I just don't think they care enough.